The hoaxes that triggered the migratory avalanche to Ceuta: “The door is open”
A Moroccan researcher's study that immediately followed the crisis shows that videos of the first successful crossings with millions of views dragged a tide of youths to the border. An official Moroccan body identifies “foreign accounts and possible organised networks”
“In the morning I saw videos on Instagram and TikTok of people crossing the border (of Ceuta) and saying: ‘The door is open’”. He is one of the hundreds of messages, posts or recordings analysed by Moroccan computer engineer Maruán L. Alaui, who has been following the migration crisis in the Spanish autonomous city in North Africa since it began.
In a study published on Instagram, he has verified that rumours on social media that distorted a ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court, on the hot expulsion of irregular migrants across the sea, triggered the human stampede.
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