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June 2015 article about Internet Research [Agency] in Russia

June 2015 article about Internet Research [Agency] in Russia

The article details an attempt to gather information about the Internet Research [Agency] organization in St Petersburg, Russia, described as a professional propaganda operation run by an oligarch. This article is of interest in its description of a propaganda operation. The article was published in June 2015, well before the U.S. media and political interest in social media propaganda. I friended as many of the trolls on Facebook as I could and began to observe their ways. Most of the…

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