The troll farms once created and maintained by businessman Yevgenia Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash last year, are still active and will likely continue to spread disinformation to influence opinion about the war in Ukraine and the US elections, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Russian disinformation tactics have changed since 2016, according to disinformation researchers and Western officials. While earlier efforts were mainly focused on attracting a large audience to content on social networks, now the focus is on creating websites that pretend to be legitimate news sources. Some newer methods also include paying actors to post fake videos accusing, for example, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of drug use.
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