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Facebook has identified a secret Russian impact crusade in Africa, and it has stressing suggestions for the 2020 US political race
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Facebook has identified a secret Russian impact crusade in Africa, and it has stressing suggestions for the 2020 US political race

Facebook said on Wednesday it had suspended three systems of Russian records that endeavored to meddle in the local legislative issues of eight African nations, and were attached to a Russian representative blamed for interfering in past U.S. decisions. The battles utilized right around 200 phony and traded off records to target individuals in Madagascar, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Sudan and Libya, Facebook said. Between them, the records amassed more than 1 million adherents. Every one of the systems were associated with "entities associated with Russian financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin," a Russian providing food head honcho prosecuted by U.S. unique investigator Robert Mueller as the benefactor of a supposed Russian e...