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Inside Russia's Troll Farm

The story of one worker in Russia's propaganda business.

The story of one worker in Russia's propaganda business. Russian journalist Vitaly Bespalov spent three months working at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg - the internet troll farm accused of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. He tells Manuela Saragosa what it was like. And Lisa-Maria Neudert, computational propaganda researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, explains how modern propaganda operations work.

(Photo: Trump supporters during the 2016 US election, Credit: Getty Images)

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