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The Agency

Adrian Chen

The New York Times Magazine

  • 2016 |
  • INTERNATIONAL REPORTING |
  • LIVINGSTON AWARD |
  • WINNER |

Adrian Chen’s feature about a shadowy trolling organization located in St. Petersburg, Russia, reveals how an authoritarian government embraced social media, a presumably pro-democratic tool. Chen traveled to Russia where he found a sophisticated disinformation operation with 400 employees working 12-hour shifts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda and manufacture false stories about unrest and disaster in the United States.

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