May 31, 2024 – 9:17 pm
On Friday afternoon, fake news labeled as breaking appeared in the system of the official Polish news agency PAP, which said Prime Minister Donald Tusk had ordered a military mobilization of 200,000 people from July 1. AP reports. The false information was deleted from the news agency's presentation within a few minutes, and the information was refuted in a statement, but later the false news appeared again, so it had to be deleted again.
According to Polish authorities, the attack was carried out by the Russian side, and the current attack is just one of the destabilization attempts against the NATO member state, which is very popular among Ukraine's supporters. Specialists from the Polish Internal Security Service are working to find the source of the attack and protect PAP from spreading more fake news on its systems.
Regarding what happened, Prime Minister Tusk later wrote in a post shared on the social media platform He added that it is increasingly clear how important these elections are.