Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of the Kremlin-linked Wagner group, says he is behind the Internet Research Agency, a shadowy company based in St. Petersburg that has carried out Russian information warfare across the globe.
on Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election singled out the company for its attempts at “sowing discord in the U.S. political system.” What started as a generalized program to undermine the U.S. electoral system grew into a targeted operation that favored then-candidate Donald Trump and disparaged Hillary Clinton, Mueller wrote. The group bought political ads in the names of American individuals and entities and posed as grass-roots U.S.
Social media accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency worked to stir divisions over Islam in the United Kingdom in the months leading up to the country’s vote to exit the European Union, according to a 2018 report from the British think tank Demos. Philippines news site RapplerThe impact of such interference is difficult to measure concretely. But for an oligarch invested in propagating an image of Russian power, the perception of meddling is an end in itself.
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