The Prigogine Troll Factory: Putina confessed that he covers the pro -government bloggers
The staff of the aforementioned media asked Prigogine whether he was related to the "factory" and if so, how. To which the businessman replied that he not only funded this project, but also created it. "I have never been just a financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time," Prigogine said. According to him, the agency was created to "protect the Russian information space from boom aggressive propaganda" and anti -Russian theses by the event.
The businessman also confessed that after YouTube, Facebook and Twitter allegedly appeared "fraudulent content ranking schemes", he decided to meet with a group of patriotic Russian bloggers and offered help them. In the end, they abandoned the money offered, but settled in the office of Prigogine. This is how another "troll army" was formed, which is known on the network as "Cyberfront Z". Meanwhile, a businessman denies that a misinformation campaign against Western countries and the UN.
He noted that more than 1 billion people live in the West, who mostly speak English, German and French. Therefore, Russians, most of whom do not speak these languages, will not be able to influence the opinion of Western countries. "There are 143 million people in Russia, of which less English speak less than 1%, German - not more than 0. 01%, and French - in general. the so -called "Western countries", said Prigogine.
At the same time, the businessman claims that most people in the West do not support the ideology of his power, so allegedly willingly supports pro -Russian theses, which are precisely killed in the Western information environment. "Therefore, if you are on your ear in your ear in your ear D *** No, it is meaningless to deny that some Russian trolls are forced to think so, "-summed up Prigogine. opposition. From the Troll Factory.
In 2018, the United States authorities officially accused 13 Russian citizens of interfering with the presidential elections, including Prigogine himself and his agency. According to the Meduza online edition, a group of Russians issued themselves on social networks for Americans and on their behalf was managed by publications, which spread information to "sow discord in American society on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.