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Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok

Journalism scholar Sara García Santamaría examines how around 20 TikTok accounts tied to the anonymous Blocus platform turned a call for a school protest into looting in Barcelona on October 24, 2026, how such fabricated protests work, their real political consequences weeks before Spain's general election, and the question of foreign interference.

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