Vídeo: Retórica anti-imigração e antissemita no centro da desinformação relacionada com o Euro 2024

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anti-immigrant and anti-semitic rhetoric is at the center of Euro’s linked misinformation the UFA European Championship is entering its final stages and what a tournament it’s been but what should be a celebration of European football has been clouded by false claims online designed to stir up hatred against marginalized groups let’s take a [Music] look a picture appeared on social media supposedly showing a football fan dressed as adult Hitler in Germany during the first round of matches it appeared and was shared widely on both Facebook and X however the photo isn’t from this year’s Euros at all instead it dates back to a Halloween party in October 2022 and was taken on the streets of Madison Wisconsin in the US we can find the original image on X as posted by stop anti-Semitism on the 30th of October 2022 the group said it was nauseated that someone would dress up as Hitler for Halloween and said that the costume was meant to do one thing spread hate another misleading claim online attempts to blame the postmatch mess on migrants this video shared on social network shows rumberg Square in Frankfurt littered with rubbish and empty food and drink containers it’s been posted with captions such as not sure how long Frankfurt Will Survive the consequences of mass immigration but the video has nothing to do with immigration at all what it does show is the mess left by football fans following the match between England and Denmark on the 20th of June the various other videos and posts show the square packed with fans before and during the game or in the aftermath where the rubbish can clearly be seen moving away from xenophobic misinformation a false claim of a different kind emerged towards the start of the championship Euro News has already covered allegations that German police were encouraging fans to smoke weed instead of drinking alcohol while visiting Germany to watch the Euros the claim seems to have sprung from a report by UK tabloid the sun which quoted a police spokesperson as saying that would be more likely to Target aggressive people drinking alcohol than a group smoking weed police and gson kersin have since rebutted this they said thatd ensure everyone’s safety regardless of the intoxicants consumed we do not explicitly encourage football fans to smoke weed the spokesperson said when we think of online misinformation we typically link it to political news and dubious health or scientific claims but it’s important to remember that it can also infiltrate our more entertaining interests too for more investigations and fact checks take a look at our website euronews.com