A new wave of disinformation hit #Poland social media, as a 33-years old driver hit a group of pedestrians in Szczecin and was detained by police. Anti-Ukrainian accounts immediately started sharing claims he was an Ukrainian. After police stated he’s Polish, they started claiming he’s “holder of Polish citizenship but of Ukrainian origin”. Another account claimed that his car registration number indicated that the car was registered to a “person with Polish PESEL but without citizenship” which was so absurd, that even another popular anti-Ukrainian profile stepped in and said this is nonsense.
Notably, a few days ago another popular right-wing publicist Tomasz Sommer shared an information about a woman raped in Warszawa, unambiguously implying that the rapist was an unspecified immigrant (his followers correctly decoded it as an allusion to Ukrainians in the comments). Soon after police informed that the rapist was a Polish man with past history of sexual violence, and the victim was a #Belarus woman, who later died in hospital.
@kravietz Imagine shit like this being done to Russians for over a decade.
But even more destructive effect of these disinformation campaigns isn't that people start believing bullshit, but that they stop trusting any information sources at all and take the "We will never know the truth" stance, after that people just believe whatever they are comfortable with — that's I think how Pooteen fighting for what's right gets sold to US conservatives skeptical of their own government.
@m0xee @kravietz they did it to themselves