“ViVi per un mondo Libero” - Violent Italian conspiracy group harasses politicians and spreads vaccine disinformation in blatant breach of Facebook rules

Although the movement’s social media profiles were reportedly taken down by Facebook in December 2021, this report finds that the ViVi movement continues to engage in large-scale coordinated inauthentic behaviour on the platform – raising questions about the effectiveness and consistency of Meta’s self-reported intervention.1 The objective of the coordinated harassment campaign identified by our a. [...] For months, the main narrative focused on likening pro-vaccine policies to a “Nazi regime”, yet in June 2022 a new 4 A copy and translation of the comment is available at the end of this report in the Examples of ViVi Content section. [...] As demonstrated by the graph below, which shows the distribution of ViVi comments by party (red) versus the portion of all comments in the dataset that related to the party (blue), not all parties were attacked to the same degree. [...] BUT WE CANNOT FORGET THAT THE AIM OF THE NAZIS IS THE EXTERMINATION AND THE TOTAL CONTROL THAT IS USED TO IMPLEMENT IT. [...] THE NAZI KAPÒ LICKS THAT FORGET VERY SERIOUS THINGS LIE AND DO: WE REMEMBER THAT ZAIA IS THE SAME NAZI JOKE WHO REPRESENTED THE ABSURDITY OF THE COVID DEAD COUNT SCAM BUT "THIS IS EVEN IF IT IS ABSURD" AND HAS NEVER OPPOSED AND REPRESENTED THE THING THAT HE WOULD HAVE REJECTED BY REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE DESTROYED THE ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRY AND HAS LEADED TO A VACCINATION NOT ONLY USELESS BUT VERY.