The three networks of accounts, pages and groups originating in Russia targeted users in several African nations.
While the campaigns targeted several African nations, they are likely to ramp up fears that the 2020 U.S. election could see a repeat of the disinformation spread by Russian actors in 2016.found that Russia's Internet Research Agency reached millions of U.S. users on social media in the lead up to the last presidential election and used its false accounts to influence voters and even drive them to manufactured rallies.
In three separate campaigns targeting various African states including Madagascar, Sudan and Libya, Facebook said the networks of accounts and pages posted about local news, politics and local elections. In each case, hundreds of thousands of accounts followed at least one of the pages created by these networks.
Facebook's investigation connected these most recent campaigns to entities associated with Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a Russian financier
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