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A 37-page indictment issued by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team on Friday brings fresh American attention to one of the strangest elements of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election: The Internet Research Agency (IRA), a state-sponsored “troll factory†in St. Petersburg.But much of the information Mueller published on Friday about the agency’s efforts to influence the election had already been published last October — in an article by a Russian business magazine, RBC.In a 4,500-word report titled “How the 'troll factory' worked the U.S. elections,†journalists Polina Rusyaeva and Andrey Zakharov offered the fullest picture yet of how the “American department†of the IRA used Facebook, Twitter and other tactics to inflame tensions ahead of the 2016 vote. The article also looked at the staffing structure of the organization and revealed details about its budget and salaries....https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/18/the-russian-journalist-who-helped-uncover-election-meddling-is-confounded-by-the-mueller-indictments/?utm_term=.128186e7bb52
Wait....Al this Troll stuff was reported on last October, and everybody's acting like Mueller just made some kind of breathtaking discovery?
