The fake insect-food narrative, which first surfaced last year in a number of EU countries, has proven so popular with malign actors both within and outside the bloc that they've brought it back for the European election cycle to try to discredit pro-EU candidates.
Even Canetta was a bit astonished that this seemingly outlandish narrative made it to his own children's school in Milan, Italy, where parents 'were actually worried about their hypothesis of having secretly added insects in the food then given to the children,' he told DW.
The EDMO reports a record-high amount of disinformation ahead of the vote about universally controversial issues like migration, agricultural policy and climate change.
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