The accounts in question attempted to sway public opinion during the Brexit referendum.
When the employees of the famous “troll factory” in St. Petersburg return to their desks after the Russian holidays, they will be writing comments and posts on social media in much more spacious offices, the Euromaidan Press reported.
Facebook says it is creating a portal enabling users to learn whether they liked or followed pages or accounts linked to a shadowy Russian company that U.S. officials accuse of trying to influence last year's presidential election with socially divisive posts, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
On October 15, the Russian independent news network Dozhd published the latest development in this ongoing story: an interview with a man who allegedly worked in 2014-2015 for the IRA, Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” responsible for buying ads on social media and polluting American online news discussion in an apparent effort to destabilize U.S. democracy, according to Meduza.
Following in the footsteps of other former employees, more of the Kremlin's online army are now coming forward to tell their stories of working 12-hour shifts in Russia's most controversial office, according to The Moscow Times.