Facebook Uncovers Russian Disinformation Campaign in Africa in Prelude to 2020 U.S. Elections

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it had removed three Russian-backed influence networks from its platform that targeted several African countries including Cameroon, Mozambique, Libya, and Sudan.

They are trying to make it harder for us and civil society to try and detect their operations, Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Facebooks cybersecurity policy, told theNew York Times.

Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory Alex Stamos, himself a former Facebook executive, said the Russian campaign in Africa will have implications for the 2020 presidential elections.

When the State Department announced new sanctions on Prigozhin in September, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S.

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