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How Evgeny Prigozhin troll the USA
Facebook admitted that the Russian “Troll Factory” used it. We learned the details
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How many trolls are left?
Representatives of Facebook told EN in the Congress about how companies associated with the St. Petersburg “Internet research agency” Evallery Evgeny Prigozhin (more known as the “Troll Factory”) spent $ 100 thousand on promoting political posts in the United States during the 2016 election campaign. The groups are closed, and 470 of the fake accounts associated with them were blocked, and reported to the social network. Does this mean that Russian trolls are defeated?
- Facebook fights with Russian groups quite effectively - a source close to the leadership of the Troll Factory, told The Bell that the social network closed up to 80% of the groups that it led.
- In total, 25 factory groups on Facebook (more than 3 million subscribers) and 32 groups on Instagram (2 million) were closed, the interlocutor of The Bell. Twitter also closed about 50 accounts, which had about 600 thousand followers.
- Most of the blocked communities were devoted to the conservative party and black problems. The Bell checked the groups of which the RBC magazine - Secured Borders on Facebook and Tea Party News on Twitter: both of them were closed : both of them are closed.
- Groups in social networks were created under the election campaign. What are the remaining 20% and what goals are doing now? No special tasks were set after the elections, the source of The Bell claims. Now the Factory continues to support the audience of the remaining groups until they are needed again. The probability that they are blocked is small: most of the users of groups are not bots, but real people, and their belonging to the “troll factory” Facebook can only calculate on advertising campaigns, he claims.
- The Bell failed to get a comment by Mikhail Burch, who is called the leader of the “Trolls Factory”.
What am I to me?
- According to the interlocutor of The Bell, the struggle of social networks with the groups of the "troll factory" is limited to the American segment Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: the Russian -speaking segment does not interest them.
- There are no calculations of the activity of the “factory” in Russian social networks. But the scale of his work can be estimated by the media segment of the holding Evgeny Prigozhin, which includes little -known sites with huge traffic.
- In April, the total audience of the holding resources was 36 million unique users per month, now, as the Bell calculated based on LiveInternet data, 53.5 million. This is almost twice as much as that of RIA Novosti (29.9 million people).
What about this is said in social networks
Former US Ambassador to Russia, 276 thousand readers
Incredible! Who no regulation on this? "Facebook Says It Sold Political Ads to Russian Company During 2016 Election" ... more
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The driver's testimony
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- From his testimony it follows that he brought Ulyukaev to Rosneft, he himself remained to wait in the car, and after 15 minutes he heard someone opened the trunk. Someone turned out to be Ulyukaev, who tried to put a weighty bag (from 14 to 20 kg) and a voluminous (about a meter in width) bag in the trunk. The driver helped him, and Ulyukaev returned back to the Rosneft office, after a while appearing back, accompanied by Sechin, which carried the very basket of sausage.
- If everything was so, then the question arises-why was the minister to go back and forth, transferring various objects from the Rosneft office?
- Ulyukaev’s defense insists that everything was wrong: Ulyukaeva met Sechin in the parking lot, they left the company's office, too, both with a bag and a basket.
- Can Makarov be mistaken? In theory, yes, in court he explained that the detention of Ulyukaev was fraught with great nervous stress, so he remembers the circumstances of that day poorly. For example, Makarov could not answer how Ulyukaev answered the questions of the FSB officers.
- There are conversations of Ulyukaev and Sechin were recorded, it can be assumed that it was conducted both video surveillance, and the court will nevertheless establish the sequence of actions of the main actors.
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Financier, 3,700 subscribers
If you believe the testimony of the driver of Ulyukaev (and they are unlikely to have reasons not to believe), then there were a basket and a portfolio, and behaved with him Ulyukaev, not like with an additional portion of sausage. Sausage and wine were in a separate open basket. So I personally return to the first imprint from the beginning of the process - Ulyukaev knew that in the portfolio, the key to which was in his pocket and which he without fear took from the hands of an old friend. It's just Business as Usual ... yet
Khodorkovsky Mikhail
Politician, 657 thousand readers
Today is the birthday of Kirill Serebrennikov and Igor Sechin. I wish them more likely to change places. It will be fair ... yet
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