Earlier this year, two obscure companies from Northern Louisiana brokered a multimillion-dollar deal with former President Donald Trumpās Truth Social and walked away with a findersā fee valued at $155 million.
The companiesāWorldConnect IPTV and JedTecāformed a joint venture, named WorldConnect Technologies, which served as the middleman between Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and Perception TV CDN, the company hired to build the tech infrastructure needed to power Truth Socialās foray into video streaming.
To better understand the nature of TMTGās burgeoning media holdings and the companies building it, Fortune examined dozens of business filings from the U.S. and abroad, and spoke to seven sources that previously worked with Perceptionās cofounders, its current chair Matjaz āMattā Vidmar and CEO John Mills.
What emerged from these sources was a āno questions askedā policy at Perception and previous companies connected to Vidmar and Mills that led them to work with Chinese and Russian state-backed propaganda networks, Islamist television channels, and Iranian corporations. TMTG chose to work with Perception despite the fact that in the past it did business with now-sanctioned entities.
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TV channels for Russia, China, and Islamic fundamentalists
Vidmarās previous company, Vision247, also had a history of working with clients that ran afoul of regulators [ā¦] The company exhibited little discernment regarding who it would work with, striking deals with Russia Today (RT), China Central Television (CCTV), and several Islamist networks.
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RT and CCTV are the state-backed media outlets of Russia and China respectively. Vision247 also carried the broadcast channels of the Islamist media companies Peace TV and Almajd Network. Almajd is an Arabic-language media company that has close ties to the Salafi branch of Islamic fundamentalism. In 2019, Peace TVās content led to it being banned from broadcasting in the U.K. in 2019 for inciting violence and hate speech. Peace TV was a client of Vision247 at the time it was booted from British airwaves.
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Iām shocked! SHOCKED! Well not that shocked.
Iām shocked they are this sloppy.
I donāt think they care at this point. They can say and do anything and just say itās a conspiracy.
And it doesnāt seem to have any consequences anyway, since in capitalism you can get away with anything if youāre rich and they know that.
I miss the days US politicians took the effort to hide where their international illegal campaign contributions came from.
It seems thet for many here, Iran, Russia, and China are the good guys in anything and everything, and especially in their opposition to the US. Soā¦ Iām not quite sure why this doesnāt make the orange dude adored by this crowd.
āhereā is beehaw, which is a bit more sane. Youāre probably thinking of lemmy.ml
I guess many from the .ml communities have alt accounts here and just parrot the propaganda. But itās certainly true that itās much better at Beehaw than there.
The orange dude is running for president of USA.
