everyone. take a closer look at what's being alleged in the indictment the st petersburg based internet research agency is listed as a major target of the investigation it said have undertaken operations to interfere with elections and political processes also known as the troll factory is accused of manipulating social media in the us and staging political rallies in support of donald trump the indictment says russian imposters on social media used hashtags including trump train trump twenty sixteen and hillary for prison named in the indictment as if any prisoner triggers in a close associate of russian president vladimir putin and one of russia's richest men he's listed as financing the troll factories operations were a challenge has more from moscow. russian response so far has essentially amplified a sense of incredulity incredulity that thirteen people could of influence the voting of more than three hundred million americans incredulity that these thirteen