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Podcast: Inside a Russian Troll Farm | Jessikka Aro

Written by Joseph Carson | Jan 13, 2021 10:57:55 PM

Today, special guest and journalist Jessikka Aro shares a powerful story of how she investigated Putin’s Russian troll factory. Jessikka explains the phenomenon of how a group of normal citizens became paid Russian propagandists used in wartime to secretly affect popular opinion in Ukraine. She describes her own experience being targeted by the trolls who intended to silence her reporting, and how the Russian disinformation campaign still poses serious threats to countries today.