From Silicon Valley to Staten Island, Russian troll sites kept online by American companies

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/media/itl-green-floid-cloudflare-russian-sites/index.html

By  Jose Pagliery and Donie O'Sullivan at CNN

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The use of American companies to push Russian propaganda goes beyond social media sites like Facebook. Russians also used American internet services to keep their websites up and hide their true owners, according to internet records and two executives at internet routing companies interviewed by CNN.

The firms routing these websites' internet traffic include Cloudflare, a major Silicon Valley corporation, and a Ukrainian company's subsidiary in Florida.

The websites are part of a network run by the Internet Research Agency, a troll army based in St. Petersburg, Russia, with ties to the Kremlin. The groups, with names like "Don't Shoot Us" and "Black Matters," posed as black American activists. They posted videos showing police brutality against African Americans and attempted to organize protests across the United States. But they need internet infrastructure to keep sites online.

The use of the routing companies shows how Russian trolls tried to mask their efforts that also used Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, and other popular social media platforms.

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[octoberlib]

1. WTF?!

You mean they have franchises?

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3. Rerouting most likely, hiding the original ISP address.