promote stories, hundreds or thousands of times then that puts it into trending feeds. once it's in a trending feed it takes on a life of its own. >> experts who research russia's campaign explain how putin's government uses an army of trolls, online critics who push their agendas to confuse and frighten audiences in the west an idea that played out dramatically on the show time series homeland. a troll factory where hundreds of employees toil away. >> iraq bob, that's me. navy wife. that's me too. >> they're marching orders. post phoney stories and tweets and spread them as widely as possible. >> you find a new set of talking points in your folders. get outraged. >> the real life troll factories used by russians may not look at slick as the tv version but they are real. paid trolls who spread fake reports can amplify their impact by using bot nets. thousands of other peoples