The Veles operation covertly partnered with American right-wing propagandists

Evidence

At first, the story’s most shocking revelation was the political agnosticism of the Veles content farmers. They backed Trump simply because it paid better. But as BuzzFeed News later uncovered, the operation wasn’t purely local. The Arsov brothers partnered with two right-wing American propagandists, Ben Goldman and Paris Wade, both from Liberty Writers News, who in turn recruited Alicia Powe, a staffer who claimed to have worked for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 484