Risky Bulletin Newsletter
July 03, 2023
Risky Biz News: Prigozhin troll farms in limbo following Wagner mutiny
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Several Russia-based news outlets are reporting that Yevgeny Prigozhin is shutting down his Patriot media company in the aftermath of his failed mutiny at the head of the Wagner PMC last month.
The Patriot media group is a holding company for a dozen of Russian-language propaganda and fake news sites, such as RIA FAN, Politika Segodnya (Politics Today), Ekonomika Segodnya (Economics Today), Nevskiye Novosti (Nevsky News), and Narodnye Novosti (People's News). It is also the holding company for the Internet Research Agency—Russia's infamous "troll farm" linked to multiple instances of election interference across the world.
Prigozhin has allegedly fired all employees and plans to shut down all news sites. All this information comes from Patriot media group insiders, and Prigozhin has not made a formal statement or has been seen or heard from since leaving Russia for Belarus.