Along with the floods in Poland and the Czech Republic, there is a "real tsunami" of fake news

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk most seriously warned his compatriots this morning that if they see a German soldier in the flooded areas and around the embankment, that he is not an occupier but only a soldier who, as some of the American soldiers stationed in Poland are already doing, has come to help in the fight with floods.

"If you see German soldiers, don't panic. It's help, so there are no doubts", they "don't intend to blow up any embankments", are the messages that Tusk is forced to repeat in a veritable flood of misinformation, fake news and theories conspiracies that spread faster and stronger than floods in Poland, but also in the neighboring Czech Republic.

Police officers, soldiers or rescuers go out into the field even though they would be needed where there are really endangered people and to search for missing persons reported by pranksters, while the Internal Security Agency has its hands full with the potentially more dangerous spreading of misinformation.

"A man dressed in a military uniform has been seen announcing in various places that the embankments will be blown up at any moment. He is driving a car with fake license plates and it is no longer fun, these are serious things. Don't believe it and call the authorities immediately," he said. was Prime Minister Tusk last night.

The Polish government, together with the state security services, is trying to eliminate the targeted spread of disinformation as quickly as possible and prevent the spread of panic, which, according to security experts, may be part of the hybrid attacks that are intensifying the war in Ukraine.

Neighboring Czech Republic is flooded with another, no less dangerous type of fake news and disinformation - yes, in fact there are no floods and they are invented by the government in the media, including dramatic scenes from underwater settlements and rescue operations, in order to distract attention from other issues before regional elections scheduled for Friday and Saturday.

"Are there really such idiots who are affected by this?" wrote Michal Kraft, assistant to MP Jaroslav Foldina for the radical nationalists, alongside the picture of the crisis headquarters session.

Film director Jan Tomanek, who "warred" on his website Zdravi Forum with measures against the covid pandemic and mandatory vaccination of children, wrote that it might be raining somewhere, but that everything is fine in Prague and the whole country.

"People have hidden their brains somewhere and are waiting in a stand-by mode for some instructions to come from the government again, again media instructions of senseless fear, massaging and completely senseless measures in the whole country", Tomanek wrote, but paradoxically he shared conspiracy theories that the army sent everything needed to fight floods to Ukraine.

"The first type is the typical conspiracy theories and fabrications, say that the floods are artificially caused or that the media hysteria is a cover for the Czech Republic to get involved in the war in Ukraine. The second type of disinformation does not contain fabricated news, but everything about the floods is used to criticize the government, the mainstream media, the USA and Ukraine," Miloš Gregor, adviser to the Czech Prime Minister for countering disinformation, told the online daily Seznam Zpravy.cz.

Proponents of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers, pro-Russian right-wing extremists, but also some radical leftists spread stories that the floods and Cyclone Boris are the fault of the authorities, who spray chemicals or bacteria and viruses with airplanes or mysterious substances that cause heavy rains and cloudbursts.

A popular theory is that HAARP is to blame for everything, a high-frequency active auroral research project near Gekon in Alaska whose goal is to study the phenomenon of aurora borealis and radio communications. It was started in 1990 and stopped working ten years ago.

There have also been theories that the floods are preparations by NATO, whose Military Committee met in Prague from September 13 to 15, for an attack on Russia.

According to experts in the Czech Republic, the disinformation spread on social networks in practice resulted in an increased number of people, especially the elderly, who refused to evacuate due to floods, because they claimed on Facebook or the X platform that they were not there, and later begged to be picked up by helicopters when the flood cut them off from the world and it was already too late for the usual evacuation.