Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military company Wagner, admitted to founding the Internet Research Agency -- a notorious troll farm that the US government has sanctioned for interfering in American elections.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military company Wagner, admitted on Tuesday to founding the Internet Research Agency, a notorious troll farm that the US government has sanctioned for interfering in American elections. A Wagner Telegram channel on Tuesday published a statement from Prigozhin, asking him to react to the suggestion that he was the founder of the agency. “I react with pleasure,” Prigozhin said in the statement.
The IRA also organized and coordinated political rallies during the run-up to the 2016 election, all while hiding its Russian identity. Further, the IRA unlawfully utilized personally identifiable information from US persons to open financial accounts to help fund IRA operations.
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