that organization that adrienne chen sought out in russia well before it was clear that the electionould come down to hillary clinton versus donald trump, that internet research agency, that's the same group that facebook now says was spending all those thousands of dollars on facebook ads to try to affect the u.s. election. adrienne chen first wrote about that particular troll farm in 2015, saying how russian intelligence was developing this capacity to basically screw with true narratives on the internet, putting people to work doing the stuff to prank and provoke and scare people, yeah, in russia and ukraine but also in the west, also in the united states. spreading lies about hooks shootings and chemical leaks and explosions that never took place. why were they doing this? why were they spending all these government resources to develop that capacity? basically just to be jerks online. well, that piece was published in june 2015, way before the u.s. election got into full swing. but a few months later, adrienne chen noticed something strange about those internet research agency t