Fake accounts and false rumours drive new Ceuta crossing campaign
- Calls for a new mass crossing into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, have flooded Moroccan social media, with posts urging migrants to rush the border on Saturday.
- An RFI investigation found the campaign was fuelled by false rumours, suspicious accounts and signs of artificial amplification.
- The campaign emerged just two weeks after more than 70,000 people entered the territory illegally in one of the worst migration crises in Ceuta's history.
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- Calls for a new mass crossing into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, have flooded Moroccan social media, with posts urging migrants to rush the border on Saturday.
- An RFI investigation found the campaign was fuelled by false rumours, suspicious accounts and signs of artificial amplification.
- The campaign emerged just two weeks after more than 70,000 people entered the territory illegally in one of the worst migration crises in Ceuta's history.
Sources: RFI