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Estelle Nilsson-Julien

Russian passports and listed jewels: How the internet went wild for fake news about the Louvre heist

It was the heist that shocked the French nation: on 19 October, a team of thieves brazenly broke into the Louvre Museum, stealing jewels worth approximately €88 million in broad daylight.

But as with every major news story, internet users took to social media platforms to comment and speculate on the burglary, while others used the opportunity to peddle disinformation and false allegations.

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