26 March 2015

Professional Kremlin Internet Troll TELLS ALL

Substantial government operation located in 
St Petersburg office building...


By Dmitry Volchek and Daisy Sindelar

More and more
, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online.

There are thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and vKontakte, all increasingly focused on the war in Ukraine. Many emanate from Russia's most famous "troll factory," the Internet Research center, an unassuming building on St. Petersburg's Savushkina Street,
which runs on a 24-hour cycle...