Yuri Milner says he was not working for Russia to turn social media against U.S. democracy
https://www.recode.net/2017/11/5/16610242/yuri-milner-russia-twitter-facebook-paradise-papers
A new trove of documents called the Paradise Papers confirm Yuri Milner’s connections to the Russian government controlled companies for the first time. Milner’s firm DST Global acquired a stake in Facebook and Twitter with funding from Kremlin owned firms VTB Bank and Gazprom, these documents reveal.
However, in a new statement, Milner said that any indication that DST Global was working on behalf of the Russian government to gain influence over social media is a “fairy tale.”