How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe (Published 2021)Migrants at a warehouse shelter in Bruzgi, Belarus, on Friday. Fake news about the situation on the border has saturated social media, particularly Facebook, during the crisis.Credit...James Hill for The New York Times BRUZGI, Belarus — After more than a week sleeping in a frigid encampment on the border between Belarus and Poland, and an abortive foray across the frontier repelled by pepper spray
