Disinformation in Czech society has gone viral alleging that if presidential candidate Petr Pavel were to be elected next weekend, he would order the mobilization for military service of all men between the ages of 18 and 60, and Romani people are among those falling for this untrue claim. The falsely alleged purpose of this mobilization would be to go fight in Ukraine.
A milder version of this disinformation is spreading the lie that Pavel wants to reintroduce compulsory military service. These allegations are all nonsense, as Czech law does not make any such thing possible, and Pavel has refuted these untrue claims. “If Pavel wins, there will be war. I don’t want my children and grandchildren to go to war,” reads one such post on Facebook.
“If that Pavel wins, there will be mobilization. We don’t want to go to war,” another person alleged in a live broadcast on that same platform.
