The Austrian COVID-19 protest movement is structured primarily along national and linguistic boundaries, with the German-speaking DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) exhibiting stronger transnational connections compared to other regions. Urban centers play a central role in the information flow of the protest network.
The study maps the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation in Spanish and French across Latin American and French-speaking communities on Facebook, highlighting how shared cultural and thematic attributes among Facebook groups enabled the emergence of large, networked audiences that transcended national borders.