The Real Paranoia-Inducing Purpose of Russian Hacks

For six months, starting in the fall of 2014, I investigated a shadowy online Russian propaganda operation called the Internet Research Agency. The agency has been widely reported in Russian media to be the brainchild of Evgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin. At the time, it employed hundreds of Russians in a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, where they produced blog posts, comments, infographics, and viral videos that pushed the Kremlin’s narrative on both the Russian and English Internet.

See the rest of the story at newyorker.com

Related:
Joe Biden and the Democratic Family at the D.N.C.
Jill Stein’s Play to the Bernie-or-Bust Contingent
A Diehard Bernie Backer Considers What Comes Next