MOSCOW, June 9 (RAPSI) – Volunteers of the Internet Safety League have found 218 fake publications about the upcoming Constitution amendments vote since June 5, the organization’s press service reports.
According to the statement, the reports are distributed in the same social network groups where earlier coronavirus fakes were detected.
The League’s director Yekatering Mizulina believes that the fake appearance is related to the resonance and active discussions on this matter.
From the beginning of April, the League’s activists received over 22,000 applications from citizens about alleged fake news and found 9,672 fake posts in total, mostly about coronavirus. Experts believe that the false information is distributed in an organized way.