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How a farmers’ protest in Bucharest was inflated online, then hijacked

NULLPEN · Source published 10/3/2026, 6:40:44 PM UTC

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.

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