No, the EU does not want to force everyone to eat insects

Conspiracy theories surrounding the EU election are in high gear.

Here are five of the largest conspiracy theories that are being spread right now:

The EU wants to force everyone to eat insects:

Population exchange:

The EU as a superstate will force citizens to do various things:

Politicians want to destroy agriculture:

The Ukraine war is staged:

Önnerfors also notes that many of the conspiracy theories being spread have their roots in two very different but interconnected dystopian visions of the EU as something terrible and dangerous. Either as a dictatorial surveillance state, or as a ultra-liberal place where morality collapses. His advice to everyone, generally but also specifically ahead of the EU election, is: