Fake Facebook accounts ran rampant during this year’s elections in Ukraine. Ahead of the parliamentary polls, Slidstvo.info sent a reporter undercover to see how a professional troll farm operates.

Reporters for OCCRP have found evidence that pro-Kremlin agents are using an online petition tool on www.whitehouse.gov, a US presidential website, in an attempt to covertly influence US policy.

A closer look at the effort gives a better understanding how trolls are used to propagandize Russian citizens with misinformation about the West.

Internet trolls normally operate in the shadows, posting inflammatory and often false material behind the mask of anonymity or fake identities.