Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Meet the Russian-Owned Firm Creating an Army of Traveling ‘Proxies’

A former senior Russian intelligence official has created an American tech firm that pays people to go places and film things.

In November 2016, just two weeks after the U.S. presidential election, a mysterious ad was posted on Indeed, the popular job website, seeking reporters for a one-day gig: capturing live video of the inauguration of Donald Trump. A few weeks later, a similar notice appeared in Russian on another website.