Then-Ukraine’s President and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko (L) attends a policy debate with his rival, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium on April 19, 2019, in Kyiv. Zelensky won the presidential election two days later, on April 21, 2019, becoming the sixth president of Ukraine.
U.S. tech giant Facebook has removed dozens of fake accounts that spread so-called “black PR” and offensive content against Ukrainian politicians during the 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The accounts were set up by Ukrainian marketing agency Postmen, Facebook told journalists on July 8, 2020. The agency has been spreading propaganda and offensive content through its network of fake Facebook accounts, which it has created over the years.