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):
Сотни троллей за миллионы (ау…
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:
Inside the Russian Troll Fact…
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:
Behind the Dutch Terror Threa…
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:
“Virtual Hatred: How Russia T…
IRA has also outsourced some of its work to countries like Ghana and Nigeria.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:
UK exposes sick Russian troll…