Facebook has removed hundreds of social media accounts targeted at countries in Africa, according the company sources. Facebook has banned an Israeli firm for ‘‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’‘. It is reported that 265 social media accounts removed were focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia. The people used fake accounts to run pages, disseminate content and increasing engagements. These networks also ‘‘represented themselves as locals, including news organizations and published allegedly leaked information about politicians’’. It said the people behind these accounts spent about US$812,000 for ads between December 2012 and April 2019. Five of the six African countries targeted have had elections since 2016.
