A study covering more than 1,180 Facebook posts and over 100 TikTok videos has uncovered a manipulation mechanism surrounding a real farmers' protest in Bucharest. According to analysts, the initially small-scale protest was artificially inflated through clusters of accounts posting nearly identical messages and videos. This synchronicity in publications points to a coordinated campaign rather than an organic rise in user interest in the topic. As the content spread, the farmers' protest topic gradually transformed: instead of discussing the farmers' specific economic demands, the focus shifted to anti-government and anti-European rhetoric. In particular, narratives typical of pro-Russian propaganda began appearing in the posts, aimed at undermining trust in Romanian authorities and European Union institutions. Experts note that this practice — using real social protests as a starting point for subsequently promoting politicized and disinformation messages — is becoming an increasingly common tool of information operations in Eastern European countries. The case of the Bucharest protest demonstrates how a local event can be turned into an element of a broader campaign to destabilize public opinion and undermine trust in Euro-Atlantic institutions. The authors of the analysis call on social media platforms to strengthen monitoring of coordinated inauthentic activity, and urge users to critically evaluate viral content, especially when it is accompanied by uniform wording and mass distribution within a short period of time.