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In the case of the Eurosceptic community , we noted earlier that its presence on the platform has continued to grow , including tweets that could be categorised as hate crimes owing to their high degree of xenophobia . In France , where the phenomenon is particularly pronounced , the tweet with the greatest impact in 2020 came surprisingly from an anonymous profile with very few followers ( 345 ). The tweet introduced a survey on France ’ s membership in the EU ( the result was that 88 % of respondents voted for France ’ s departure ). Along similar lines was a tweet posted by the politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (@ duponaignant ), who is a founder of the right-wing populist party Debout la France ( see image 12 ). The profile of the popular influencer Kelly Betesh , who has over 15 million followers , also had a major impact on the
day through her posting of a photo in which she wrapped herself in the French flag as a symbol of her rejection of Europe Day . Other examples of Euroscepticism on Twitter appear in Italy and the Netherlands . In these communities , the tweet with the greatest impact came from the account @ Jeroen99271706 , which posted an image of the EU flag being set on fire in protest . In this respect , it is important to underscore that most of the tweets from the Eurosceptic community in Italy came from the political milieu of the Lega Party on the right . In the case of the Netherlands , the politician Geert Wilders (@ geertwilderspvv ), leader of the far-right PVV Party , went viral with the post of an explicit photo under the slogan “ Nexit ” in a clear allusion to Brexit . Lastly , in Spain , the far-right Vox Party and its followers were the main sources of Eurosceptic
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