ProjectFearlessnessInside Prighozin's Troll Factory
"People who accuse us of hosting some trolls out here are simply liars. But the reason why they lie is not because they are not smart enough or something, but because they have a mission to discredit us."
"This is a propaganda war.”
Yevgeny Zubarev,
Former Director,
Internet Research Agency.
Trollsbane. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ is no more. We spoke to former employees of Prigozhin’s media empire about what they used to do for a living — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot media conglomerate shut down on 30 June, shortly after the Wagner chief’s mutiny attempt. The conglomerate included the infamous “troll factory” and “media factory” that employed hundreds of people. Hardly anyone but Patriot’s former employees would ever lament the conglomerate’s departure. We delve deeper into the origins of Prigozhin’s media empire to find out how those “factories” came to be and how they operated.