Russian Internet Trolls

It's old news now, but the Internet Research Agency, which was a villain in the January intelligence report about Russian Interference, was officially closed down at the time of the report because it had a year of inactivity. That is according to public records, which our CIA seems too stupid to check. If you use Chrome internet browser to translate, you can see those records here:

http://www.rusprofile.ru/egrul?ogrn=1137847282462

and the so called intelligence report here:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

In September of 2016, the lack of activity by the company caused it to be flagged as inactive. That takes a year of nothing happening in the bank accounts or by no longer having a bank account. It was unregistered in December 2016. Of course, the social media accounts could have merely been used by another company, including a government agency; I'm just trying to throw some shade on the general narrative by pointing out inaccuracies. If nothing else, why didn't our CIA catch this?

According to this bad attempt to create a conspiracy theory, http://thesaker.is/a-brief-history-of-the-kremlin-trolls Internet Research Agency's assets (dummy accounts?) were transferred to a company called TEKA. I didn't check that. And I did get the info about Internet Research Agency being shut down from that article. I certainly wouldn't have thought on my own to check Russian business registrations. I don't believe in the scenario reached by that article.

My alternative theory is that a rich and ugly acquaintance of Putin, Evgeny Prigozhin, a businessman, merely put together both troll factories and internet news organizations as a way to make money by creating online presence and effects for a price. Create accounts about passionate/divisive subjects, build them up with followers, then charge to use them to get out messages to anyone who'll pay, for example, perhaps Media Matters, Russian govt, Soros, DNC, etc. 

The paid ads talked about by Facebook and Twitter seem to build account following rather than affect the election. It just doesn't feel like a government operation to me. Obviously, many others disagree.

By the way, it is fun to use the automatic translation by browsers to read news from other countries. The translations aren't always easy to read, but it gives you a way to get a different perspective about both the news and another culture.

Cheers.