The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.
  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    https://archive.ph/y2Ynz

    Also, an interesting idea, that provocateurs intentionally started rumors and pushed them hardest to areas where destroying a land register would cause the most issues for the local nobility.