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Eugene

(62,658 posts)
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 12:43 AM Mar 2019

Russia-Trump troll suspect defends internet job

Source: BBC

Russia-Trump troll suspect defends internet job

15 March 2019

A Russian computer expert accused of meddling in the US 2016 presidential election says he simply did ordinary IT work, not political trolling.

Sergei Polozov is among 13 Russians named in the Mueller indictment, which alleges a systematic Russian state effort to influence US voters.

Mr Polozov told BBC Russian he knew nothing about a Russian "troll farm" called the Internet Research Agency.

The agency's alleged location, he said, was a business centre he had visited.

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'Active patriot'

He said he had collaborated with workers at Savushkina 55, the St Petersburg address alleged to have been the nerve centre of Russian cyber-meddling in the US election, ahead of Donald Trump's victory.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47572398


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Russia-Trump troll suspect defends internet job (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2019 OP
bwahaha, what an honest face! BootinUp Mar 2019 #1
I Don't Doubt Polozov Is A Patriot BUT Vogon_Glory Mar 2019 #2

Vogon_Glory

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2. I Don't Doubt Polozov Is A Patriot BUT
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 08:30 AM
Mar 2019

He’s a patriot working for Holy Mother Russia, not for the USA.

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