Internet Research Agency, located in an ugly neo-Stalinist building in St. Petersburg’s Primorsky District. They’d settle into their cramped cubicles and get down to business, assuming a series of fake identities known as “sockpuppets.” The job was writing hundreds of social media posts per day, with the goal of hijacking conversations and spreading lies, all to the benefit of the Russian government. For this work, our philosophy major was paid the equivalent of $1,500 per month. (Those who worked on the “Facebook desk” targeting foreign audiences received double the pay of those targeting
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