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happy to see him. reporter: i m from abc news in the united states. we re in st. petersburg, russia, trying to get inside a building known as the troll factory. okay, okay. easy, easy. here, we re told dozens of internet trolls are hard at work, trying to exploit america s divisions. security guards push us out, threatening to call the police. not far away, we meet lyudmila savchuk, a journalist who went undercover in 2015, working in the troll factory for about $700 a month. what was your job when you were working there? what did you have to do all day? she tells me she would invent fictional characters and then post under their names, with topics carefully selected by her bosses. she says she and some of her fellow ex-trolls shot these undercover videos inside the building, showing tight security and rows of trolls, typing away.
say there is no such group, that they were, in fact, created by russian companies which paid more than $100,000 to facebook to post them during and after the election. their goal was to spread dissension, was to split our country apart, and they did a pretty good job. reporter: many of the ads, investigators say, came from an operation in st. petersburg, russia, in this building where young russians are hired to send out fake news. a former employee says she took this undercover video inside when she worked there in 2015, hoping to expose the operation, where the so-called trolls worked 12-hour shifts. the former employee, lyudmila savchuk, told abc news, facebook was one of their main platforms. according to investigators, the ads show their slant, pro-trump, anti-clinton. their targets? voters in specific areas of key swing states. of specificity? that s one of the questions we need answered. that is the question tonight.