The Internet Research Agency had a graphics department, a data analysis department, an SEO department, an IT department and a finance department — a fake news version of what a real newsroom would look like.

Tim Mak

Several Russian media outlets have claimed that the agency is funded by Evgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch restaurateur called “the Kremlin’s chef” in the independent press for his lucrative government contracts and his close relationship with Putin. When a reporter from the opposition paper Novaya Gazeta infiltrated the agency posing as a job seeker, she discovered that one of the team leaders was an employee of Prigozhin’s Concord holding company.

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