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Latvia Weekly: Escalating COVID-19 Conspiracies and Rising LGBTQ Education Fears
New observations this week: 7 Main channel: Tiktok Main keywords: Covid, vaccines, LGBTQ, Russian Language Main disinformation narratives: Overview: COVID-19 remains a topic that is capable of reaching a wider audience and more engagement. In comparison to last week additionally, to the already existing narrative of mandatory vaccines, content relating to various conspiracy theories is…
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Latvia Weekly: Persistent COVID-19 Disinformation, Corruption Claims, and Waning
New observations this week: 8 Main channel: Tiktok Main keywords: Covid, vaccines, corruption Main disinformation narratives: Overview: Similarly, as for the previous two weeks, the majority of content is related to COVID-19. Whilst the authors remain the same and try to apply a similar video format and narrative as in previous weeks, the engagement is…
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Latvia Weekly: Vaccine Anxiety, Education Fears, and Pension Discontent
New observations this week: 11 Main channel: TikTok Main keywords: Conspiracy, chemtrails, Covid, vaccines, LGBTQ, corruption, polarisation, language, pensions, Russia Main narratives: Overview: The majority of content continues to focus on COVID-19, specifically the anxiety surrounding mandatory vaccines. Content in Latvian language reaches a smaller audience compared to Russian, but garners more comments. Interestingly, the…
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Latvia Weekly: Border Security Concerns, Linguistic Polarization, and Political Critique
New observations this week: 4 Main channels: Facebook, Twitter Main keywords: Government, migrants, eastern border, Belarus, LGBTQ, language, polarisation. Main narratives: Overview: In this week, the disinformation primarily addressed domestic issues, such as polarization between Latvian and Russian speakers, the ratification of the Istanbul convention, and the influx of illegal migrants at the eastern border…
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