Simona Halep experienced health problems at the Australian Open and was knocked out due to the anti-COVID vaccine she took. The narrative is promoted by activenews, a website with a predominantly anti-vaxx and coronasceptic editorial policy.
A news agency and websites that have previously published fake news reported that the Romanian Minister of Defense had warned that Romania would go to war. The "statement" was fabricated; in reality, the minister said that there would be peace.
People previously promoted by Sputnik, who in the past were accused of defending the interests of Russia and/or were associated with the anti-vaxx movement, launched a number of anti-Ukrainian disinformation narratives after war broke out. Cozmin Gușă, Diana Șoșoacă and Iosefina Pascal are among those who promote these disinformation themes, ranging from false justifications for the invasion (the existence of laboratories manufacturing biological weapons), to complete denial of an actual war.
A young woman who died suddenly while waiting for her child outside a kindergarten was suffering from an aortic dissection allegedly caused by the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a false narrative promoted by the conspiracy website activenews.ro.
A March 2024 study suggests that the HPV vaccine causes autoimmune diseases, according to a narrative launched by the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s portal, infowars.com, which was picked up in Romania by activenews.ro, an online publication with an anti-vaccination rhetoric.
The Legionary movement re-emerged in Romania shortly after the 1989 Revolution. Some legionary theses and ideas can be identified in the discourse of present-day sovereignists. Veridica briefly traces the development of the (neo)legionary movement in post-communist Romania, under the authorities’ permissive eye.
