Vídeo: Notícias falsas estão a aumentar à medida que as eleições europeias se aproximam

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fake news is on the rise as the European elections draw near ahead of the vote EU leaders and the European Union are increasingly being the targets of misinformation whether it’s an attempt to discredit political rivals or claims about EU regulations social media is Rife with false narratives let’s take a look the dramatic shooting of Slovakia’s prime minister Robert fitso has prompted sades of politically motiv ated misinformation online social media users are claiming that this picture shows fito’s alleged attacker alongside Martin shetka the father of the leader of the opposition party Progressive Slovakia Slovakian media has identified the alleged shooter as self-described writer urri cinta however the picture in the posts doesn’t show cinta and shetka together the second man in the picture isn’t shetka at all and the photo itself comes from one of ca’s book launches in 2019 Facebook itself has now now labeled the post as false information the attempted false Association of the attack on fitso with his political Rivals remains particularly dangerous ahead of the European elections across the border in Poland prime minister Donald Tusk has been accused of attacking the notion of polishness as an identity a picture posted on Tik Tok claims that Tusk called polishness an abnormality that comes to him with painful persistence the Prime Minister did State those words but they come from an article he wrote over 40 years ago according to polish fact Checkers tusk’s article critically discusses Po’s attitudes to reality before confirming that he identifies with his own polishness at a time when Poland was a communist satellite of the Soviet Union despite its oppressive Heritage it remains our common conscious Choice he said as a strongly pro-eu prime minister who previously served as president of the European Council Tusk is a crucial Target for misinformation mere weeks before the elections often it’s the EU itself that’s under attack from those spreading false narratives some social media users say the block has prohibited all cash payments over €100,000 this is partly true the EU has approved rules limiting cash transactions to €100,000 part of a raft of new anti-money laundering measures but these restrictions don’t apply to all transactions specifically there’s a limit on professional Traders barring them from accepting or paying cash over €100,000 transfers between private individuals in a nonprofessional context are exclusive Ed ahead of the European elections it’s critical that news is shared accurately and fairly so that the electorate can vote with the proper information at hand for more investigations and fact checks head to our website euronews.com