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Re:Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on Eu... by tapland on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:21AM (#20051370)
These rapid growing movements seldom have any requirements to join and allow the spread of all kinds of misinformation really well.

Another group will pop up in x weeks and the facebook groups will have people doubting vaccines, blaming immigrants, blaming the current government, and as an average user you can't sort who's just an angry middle aged person or a russian bot.

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Re:Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on Eu... by rat9988 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:22AM (#20051394)
Actually in France, the government has been way more often caught lying about the yellow vests than the opposit.
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Re:Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on Eu... by deogeo on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:34AM (#20051545)
I haven't heard much about this - care to elaborate?
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Re:Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on Eu... by rat9988 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:04PM (#20052567)
One case: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/02/french-government-claims... There were others, but I'm too lazy to search. I remember seeing one other at least. Never seen any fake news problem with yellow vest. Usually Lemonde is prompt to denounce them.
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Re:Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on Eu... by arthur5005 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:07PM (#20053426)
Never seen any fake news problem with yellow vest.

That's just outright laughable.

Here's a 20 page report detailing how the yellow vest groups have been flooded by fake news, presumably by foreign agents.

https://avaazimages.avaaz.org/Report%20Yellow%20Vests%20FINA...

You can be sure where ever there's angry people in the world Russia will be there to help fan the flames.

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