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When Dominika Sokur spoke to her children in the playground, she overheard hostile reactions that she said are being fueled by disinformation.
“When we come to the playground, people go: ‘Ah, the Ukrainians have come, let’s get out of here,’” said Sokur, 41, a Czech married to a Ukrainian who lives in the town of Holubice north of Prague.
“I have overheard them complaining that we get to ride buses and visit the zoo for free,” she said.
The attitude illustrates rising resentment against Ukrainian refugees in parts of Europe that experts link to false social media posts about Ukrainian refugees and the