The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.
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.
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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.