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Conspiracy theorists have turned from COVID to climate. How will it impact the EU elections?
We tracked nearly 4,000 conspiracist-leaning Telegram channels and groups across more than 20 European languages - here’s what we found.
Roos is a radical-right politician who currently sits as an independent in the Parliament’s European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, alongside far-right parties including Brothers of Italy and Spain’s Vox. Viral narratives have claimed that environmental regulations make hunger “inevitable”, or that, under the guise of preventing pandemics, the EU is seeking new powers to restrict flights and limit civil rights in the name of tackling climate change. There were huge spikes in activity that far eclipsed COVID-related content, as channel owners sought to exploit the protests and reduce farmers’ multifaceted complaints to attacks on the EU’s climate policies.
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