article_snippet: Hundreds of workers are paid £500 a month to work exhausting 12-hour shifts bombarding the internet with comments placing Vladimir Putin in a more favourable light.
article_snippet: One former worker at the Internet Research Centre - dubbed the Troll Factory - has lifted the lid on how employees must write more than 130 online posts a shift or face the sack.
article_snippet: Marat Burkhard explained how the operation, based in modern building in St Petersburg, is opened 24 hours a day and employees often work in teams of three. '
article_snippet: You work in the Ministry of Truth, which is the Ministry of Lies, and everyone kind of believes in this truth.'
highlights_snippet: Workers are reportedly paid £500 a month for exhausting 12-hour shifts .
  
highlights_snippet: Told Workers must bombard sites with more than 130 comments a day .
  
highlights_snippet: Staff not allowed to talk to each other or form friendships .