Man who says he was a Russian 'troll' arrested after going public

[n2doc]

Russian police have reportedly arrested a man who has claimed to be a worker at a so-called troll factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, hours after he gave interviews to foreign journalists and lifted the lid on a secretive organization the U.S. Department of Justice last week accused of trying to undermine the 2016 presidential election.

The Justice Department Friday indicted 13 Russians it accused of running a campaign through the alleged trolling operation to undermine the U.S. election, using social media posts and fake news websites. The indictment named the company behind the alleged operation as the Internet Research Agency.

Since the indictment, Marat Mindiyarov, a 43-year-old former teacher who said he worked for the operation from 2014 to early 2015, has been giving interviews to multiple foreign news outlets, including The Associated Press and The Washington Post, describing its inner workings.

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[jberryhill]

1. Bye Marat

Hope it was worth it.

For all of the stuff about "But we really can't prosecute the indicted Russian trolls", one of the smarter moves that one of them might make is to get him or herself into US custody.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Just arrested?

Somehow I feel he will never be heard from again.

[RandomAccess]

3. Possibility

A shame. He left that because he didn't feel right doing it. Now his physical safety is at risk.