Nothing new, sadly. Before the 2016 and 2020 election, fake news farms in Macedonia made the rounds [1] - these were in it for the money, and in 2015 there were reports about Russian propaganda farms targeting Serbia and the rest of Europe [2].

[1] https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/russische-trollf...