from 26-year-old vitali d espala. turning out fake news in a factory of lies as he calls it. did you create fake accounts? yes, he says. he worked inside russia's internet research agency for three months in late 2014. he'd write up to 20 fake articles a day spinning the war in ukraine that article would then be posted by a blogger and then be spread by someone in the social media department? that was one way, he says or bloggers write fake posts and he'd quote them in the articles. facebook told congress russian trolls posted 80,000 items from january 2015 to august 2017. reaching more than 20 million in the united states. >> these troll farms can produce such a volume of content with hash tags and topics that it