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Russian Troll Factory is Recruiting English-Speaking Journalists to Fight Political Censorship...
The Russian Troll Factory is Recruiting English-Speaking Journalists to Fight “Political Censorship” After Facebook BanPosted on April 19, 2018 by Dean Sterling Jones
— The “Wake up, America!” campaign will “focus on promoting information and problems that are hushed up by major American publications controlled by the US political elite”
It’s been a rough couple of months for the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
In February, 13 members of the so-called “Russian troll factory” were indicted for allegedly interfering in the 2016 U.S. election. Since then, the company has been banned from various social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
But now the IRA is fighting back with the launch of its “Wake up, America!” campaign, which promises to challenge “the hegemony of the US authorities” by “promoting information and problems that are hushed up by major American publications controlled by the US political elite.”
The campaign was announced last week via the Federal News Agency (FAN), a pro-Kremlin website that has been traced back to the IRA by open-source researcher Laurence Alexander.
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https://shootingthemessenger.blog/2018/04/19/the-russian-troll-factory-is-recruiting-english-speaking-journalists-to-fight-political-censorship-after-facebook-ban/