The Sunday Read: 'The Agency'

<p>According to Ludmila Savchuk, a former employee, every day at the Internet Research Agency was essentially the same.</p><p>From an office complex in the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg, employees logged on to the internet via a proxy service and set about flooding Russia’s popular social networking sites with opinions handed to them by their bosses.</p><p>The shadowy organization, which according to one employee filled 40 rooms, industrialized the art of “trolling.”</p><p>On this week’s Sunday Read, Adrien Chen reports on trolling and the agency, and, eventually, becomes a victim of Russian misinformation himself.</p><p><em>This story was written by </em><strong><em>Adrian Chen</em></strong><em> and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, </em><a href="https://www.audm.com/?utm_source=nytmag&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=the_agency_chen" target="_blank"><em>download Audm for iPhone or Android.</em></a></p>