Troll Factory

Facebook recently announced that they had removed a number of accounts in Africa linked to a Russian troll factory.

The accounts are linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman who is believed to be behind some of the accounts linked to boosting Donald Trumps profile during the 2016 US Presidential campaign.

Facebook removed the accounts on Wednesday 30th October and it has suspended a network of Instagram accounts that were also allegedly connected to the Internet Research Agency (a company based in Russia).

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