How Prigozhin’s Troll Farms Are Still Peddling Disinformation

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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For years, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had been a central figure in Russia’s global disinformation operation. Now, months after his death, new cybersecurity research from Google shows that his troll farms are still active and continue to peddle disinformation, with a few subtle shifts. WSJ cybersecurity and intelligence reporter Dustin Volz tells host Alex Ossola how these online campaigns operate, and how they could influence opinions about the 2024 US election. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The less your business spends the more margin you keep.
0:03.5	Net Suite by Oracle brings accounting, finance, inventory, and HR into one proven platform,
0:09.5	helping you reduce costs everywhere.
0:12.0	Now through April 15th, NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind flexible financing program.
0:17.9	So head to NetSuite.com slash Wall Street right now. Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:27.0	It's Friday, March 29th.
0:29.0	I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.
0:31.5	Coming up on today's show, instead of going to a supercharger or a gas station,
0:36.3	W.S.J. Senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern turned her garage into a charging station
0:41.6	for her electric vehicle.
0:43.0	She'll tell us how much it cost and whether it was worth it.
0:46.0	And then Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Progosian is dead,
0:50.0	but his troll farms are still active and peddling disinformation online.
0:55.0	W.S.J. reporter Dustin Volts tells us what that could mean for the 2024 U.S.
1:00.3	election. U.S. selection.
1:04.8	But first, buying an electric car can mean changing your habits to skip the gas station
1:09.4	in search of a charging station.
1:11.6	But most EV owners are actually skipping the charging stations too. 83% of them
1:16.8	say they regularly charge at home, according to Data Analytics Company J.D. Power.
1:21.1	And W.S.J.
1:22.5	senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern found that installing a charger at home can actually
1:27.4	save you money in the long run.
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