Investigate Europe

Investigating a changing Europe

  • Investigations
  • Magazine
  • Newsletter
  • Donate
  • EN
    ItalianoFrançaisEnglishDeutsch

Select Language

  • Italiano
  • Français
  • English
  • Deutsch

About us

  • The Team
  • Donors
  • Media Partners

Contact us

  • Contact us
  • Leak to us
  • Opportunities

Recent Investigations

  • Untaxed
  • Perenco Files
  • Fuelling war

Our Podcast

  • Untaxed – come le politiche fiscali dei governi hanno alimentato l’emergenza abitativa
  • Untaxed - how governments lure capital into real estate and feed the housing crisis
  • Perenco files: Les secrets toxiques d’un géant du pétrole

Magazine: Our latest articles

  • French contractor, Italian-owned trains, EU policies: Greek crash was also a European failure
  • Congo: European oil companies' secret interests with ruling family
  • The Luxembourg businessman who got Europe's corporate registries shut down - and his secret offshore interests
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Investigate Europe 2023
  • Imprint
  • Privacy

Investigate Europe

  • Investigation: Inside a troll farm
  • Donate

Inside a troll farm

1 November 2019 Inside a troll farm

Undercover at a troll farm

Undercover at a troll farm
By Katarzyna Pruszkiewicz, Wojciech Cieśla and Konrad Szczygiel

We all have heard about troll farms. However, much of the reporting about bots and trolls is just speculation. To find out what is really involved, our reporter went undercover to work as a troll for six-months at a troll farm in Wroclaw. This report gives insights about a commercial company that turned the spreading of hate and propaganda into their business model. Read more "Undercover at a troll farm"

Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

1 November 2019
The Guardian, UK

Hidden in the troll farm

31 October 2019
BuzzFeed, Germany
28 October 2019 Inside a troll farm

Inside a troll farm

Inside a troll farm
By Investigate Europe

For six-months an undercover journalist joined our investigation team looking into disinformation. Working for a commercial troll farm in Warsaw, she and her colleagues managed almost 200 profiles on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, wrote thousands of messages and comments, promoted her clients products and trolled politicians and her clients' competitors. Read our report on what the troll farm work was described internally as the "Lame Rebellion". Read more "Inside a troll farm"

Inside a troll factory

28 October 2019
Diário de Notícias, Portugal

The largest known Polish troll farm takes state subsidies. Clients include TVP

28 October 2019
Newsweek, Poland
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Leak to us
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Investigate Europe 2023
  • Imprint
  • Privacy

Stay up to date

Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to read our next investigation.
Signup now

Direct to your inbox

Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to read our next investigation.