Soup 15, November 9, 2022
Yevgeny Prigozhin (IRA) 1/2
In today’s #vatnik soup I’ll be introducing a man behind both 🇷🇺’s private war organization and its disinformation and propaganda machine: an oligarch and a businessman Yevgeni Prigozhin. This thread will be divided into 2 (or 3) parts since his “achievements” are plentiful. 1/10

In 2012 his company, Concord Catering, received a contract with the Russian military worth 1, 2 billion USD. Allegedly some of this money was used to start his troll farm masterpiece, Internet Research Agency (IRA):
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Сотни троллей за миллионы (ау…
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IRA is a company conducting online propaganda and information operations on behalf of Russia. NYT wrote an extensive (and paywalled) article about the IRA already back in 2018:
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Inside the Russian Troll Fact…
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The troll factory has produced fake videos, such as the Dutch Terror Threat video. This video depicts six soldiers, supposedly from the Azov Battalion, speaking in Ukrainian before burning a Dutch flag. The video was proven to be fake by @bellingcat:
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Behind the Dutch Terror Threa…
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IRA has also organized and promoted several rallies in the 🇺🇸, usually provoking two opposing sides to each have their own. These rallies were very common during BLM:
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“Virtual Hatred: How Russia T…
IRA has also outsourced some of its work to countries like Ghana and Nigeria.9/10
It is also worth mentioning that West and Ukraine are not the only propaganda targets of IRA – research found out that they are conducting these campaigns around the globe, including in Africa and in India:
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UK exposes sick Russian troll…
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