Il y a une dynamique constante entre les structures russes de Prigozhin et le pays cible à la fois en ligne comme par exemple avec ce compte de Lakhta et Ria Fan, l’organe de presse de Prigozhin
A cartoon emerged on social media end of Dec 2022 featuring a #WagnerGroup mercenary with a hammer against a rat, symbolising France. It was posted by this media page Burkina Kibaya (2/n) fb.watch/ikD5uoJ-Uj/
This media and news page has paid @Meta for ads campaigns targeting geographically people living in #BurkinaFaso . This tactic is called micro targeting and helps target for very cheap the right audience (less than 100usd per ad) (3/n)
The weirdest video is circulating online in support for the junta in #Burkina_Faso - the characters introduce themselves as #USA nationals and panafricanist. Commentators have attributed this video to #WagnerGroup (but we don’t know)
Interesting because #Prigozhin back office has made a “development strategy for a panafrican government in the USA” (source: Dossier Center) - is it this narrative at play? Representatives of the Burkinabè diaspora have positively commented on the transition gov in the past