against him? those questions have been asked over the last two months, and people have been talking openly about whether there would be an attempt on his life, whether we would see the return of mr prigozhin, even though he appeared in belarus and africa, would he return to the russian scene? if it s true that he was set democrat on board the plane that has crashed, then that is the end of the prigozhin story. it s the remarkable story of someone who started out as a hot dog seller in st. petersburg in the 1990s and became the kind of go to man for the kremlin, the fix it man for the kremlin when they didn t want people to know about things they were doing, they would go to mr prigozhin, whether it was internet related, internet troll farms, whether it was paramilitary groups active in syria or, more
and the wagner says the second jet turned around and is flying back to moscow. we also know that none of the social media accounts believed to be linked to prigozhin have so far made any claims or comments as to whether he is dead or alive. so we don t yet know. what we do know is that prigozhin was a hugely influentialfigure in russia. let’s influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment to influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment to reflect - influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment to reflect on - influential figure in russia. let s take a moment to reflect on who this man is, was. prigozhin was a very private person for many years. he was the man who the kremlin would go to if they needed something done on the sly, if you like, on the quiet, without too much fuss. whether it was organising internet troll farms, putting out disinformation on social media or whether it was fighting abroad, for example, in syria.
people to know about things they were doing, they would go to mr prigozhin whether it was internet related, internet troll farms, whether it was paramilitary groups, for example in syria, or more recently in ukraine, he was the man who president putin went to to get things done on the quiet. but in recent months, we saw a figure, mr prigozhin becoming publicly critical particularly of the military leadership of russia, correlating publicly with the defence minister, the chief of the general staff, becoming more confident in his outbursts, his audio messages posted online, his videos posted online, critical of russia s war in ukraine, and leading to those events of two months ago, the mutiny.
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internet troll farms and bad actors exploit social media to influence stories and actions. stories and videos that go viral whether they re true or false are capable of driving the economy because they can move markets and influence decisions on investing, on spending and saving in his upcoming book, narrative economics: how stories go viral and drive major economic events, yale university economics professor robert schiller argues studying popula stories that affect individual and collective behavior can help improve our ability to predict, prepare for and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions and other major economic events. the co-founder of the case-shiller home price index and a winner of the nobel prize in economics he joins us now. it s a great treat to have you in here, bob this is not the kind of thing we normally talk about, but you are worried in this world of increasing velocity, of stories, often nonsense, they can have an economic effect. yes, and in fact,