How a farmers’ protest in Bucharest was inflated online, then hijacked
Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages, then folded into anti-government, anti-EU and pro-Kremlin narratives.
Where: Brazil, Georgia, China, Brussels
Exact coordinates
brazil: -14.240, -51.930
georgia: 32.170, -82.910
china: 35.860, 104.200
brussels: 50.850, 4.350
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