Reports
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: 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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Latvia Weekly: Istanbul convention and LGBTQ
New observations this week: 4 Main channels: Facebook and Tiktok Main keywords: Corruption, Istanbul Convention, LGBTQ, same-sex partnership Main narratives: Overview: From the findings of the examined week, similar disinformation narratives to prior weeks have been followed. The main topic discussed throughout the content of various authors across several platforms is the Istanbul Convention. As…
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