A fired Facebook employee wrote a scathing 6,600-word memo detailing the company's failures to stop political manipulation around the world

That's true. Starting with the 'Arab spring'. All engineered and faked through Facebook fake profiles, groups, fake videos and images.

Balkans is one of those areas where fake profiles flourish and bring in hate and division. Especially because most of the former Yugoslav countries have quite similar languages. But of course there is also media with real life journalists doing the same too.