This time, Latvia’s parliamentary elections were fairly calm, delivering a pro-European result without any unexpected Russian influence operations or major scandals. Still, there is a lot to worry about. Parties that do their politics on social media platforms will be far more strongly represented in parliament: there will be many more MPs who don’t shy away from misinformation or even outright disinformation, and more with pro-Russian views. We can also predict that the new parliament will care less about human rights, the NGO sector and media freedom.
Most votes, most false claims
As predicted, Latvia’s parliamentary elections were won by the current
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