Facebook: Russians once again targeting Americans with disinformation
The Russian group that meddled in the 2016 election (Internet Research Agency) is now using sham accounts and a fake left-wing news site to sow disinformation, according to The New York Times.
Although U.S. intelligence agencies have been warning that U.S. adversaries were actively trying to cause major disruptions to the 2020 Presidential Election, Facebook announced in its August 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report, that it had been warned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that a so-called troll farm in St. Petersburg (Russia) has set up a network of fake users and a website.