Immigration is one of the activities that human societies have practiced for centuries, but most recently, this activity has been associated with disinformation. Immigrants groups are now the target of disinformation campaigns by many actors who benefit from misleading them, jeopardizing their goal to seek shelter in another country and even their safety.
In July 2022, the tech transparency project released an analysis of interviews with immigrants about how they consume information. Those immigrants reported that they usually encounter information on Facebook posts and groups about the immigration routes to the U.S. and laws and opportunities. They also said that there were many circulated false claims, such as closing the borders and that Covid-19 had eased. The analysis also found dozen other false claims, such as the change in immigration policy and that pregnant parents will have special rules. Indeed those who believed in this misinformation were later detained and deported.
In some cases, disinformation may cause a big immigration crisis that is hard to be solved. In January 2022, two popular pages with thousands of followers were the primary source of spreading false promises that immigrants from Kurdistan on the Belarus-Poland border would be allowed into the European Union. Some immigrants even believed that buses were waiting to travel them to Germany. To counter this flow of disinformation, Facebook took down the two pages for violating its content policy....
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