Putin's troll's factory uncovered, including in the US - investigation
The Russian media Fontanka (
https://bit.ly/357B05G) published the
investigation about political trolls who write negative comments in
social networks about the United States and Ukraine.
Fontanka plant a mole to this organization to investigate. The
publication found that the salary of an ordinary troll is 45,000
rubles. rubles per month (~346USD). Work schedule 2/2.
Trolls are coordinated through YouTube chats, where they upload
propaganda videos about Putin and reports from pro-Putin media.
In the comments to the videos indicated by the curator, it is
required to leave negative reviews about Ukrainian bloggers and
the United States. They constantly insult the leading independent
media and the media negatively related to Putin. Someone Aleksey
Nekrylov is coordinating the project. According to Fontanka,
Alexey Nekrylov has been an employee of Glavset, Mixinfo and
Novinfo since 2016. Viktor Nekrylov, who is the curator of trolls
at Tik Tok, was also employed at Novinfo. It is these legal entities
that the US authorities call involved in the Lakhta project, better
known as the "troll's factory".
In 2018, the US Treasury placed resources linked to the "troll
factory" on the sanctions list, accusing them of attempting to
interfere in the 2016 American elections and claiming they belonged
to Yevgeny Prigozhin. In addition to the surname Prigozhin,
Alexander Yanukovych, the son of Viktor Yanukovych, the fugitive
former president of Ukraine, is involved in this story. In an
official commentary, Alexey Nekrylov told Fontanka that he is not
engaged in recruiting in social networks, while confirming that he
has a company, but refused to name his type of activity.
