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Russian accounts spreading flood disinformation in Poland to sow panic, says government


In the first four days of the floods, there was a 300% increase in detected disinformation, says the digital affairs ministry.

“In the first four days of the flood, we recorded an increase in internet traffic in the scope of disinformation by 300%, primarily using the same IP addresses that were also used immediately after Russia attacked Ukraine,” said Gawkowski, quoted by news website Interia. The minister gave examples of fake headlines spread by the pair: “They are dying and no one is helping them”, “A little girl fell into the surging river”, and “They will blow up the embankments. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, EUobserver and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

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