{"id":7157,"date":"2026-05-24T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:42:00","slug":"kalyvas-for-karystianos-a-huge-campaign-of-political-manipulation-was-set-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7157","title":{"rendered":"Kalyvas for Karystianos: A huge campaign of political manipulation was set up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>Stathis Kalyvas<\/b> recalled something he wrote earlier about <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> and it seems to be completely justified. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier <b>Stathis Kalyvas<\/b> had written that with the case of <b>Tebes<\/b> an unprecedented attempt is being made to manipulate citizens and political developments in our country, with driving forces from centers outside Greece. He then, as well as those who wrote that <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> is doing everything for political purposes and the xylolia are fairy tales, had received a merciless war from an army of internet trolls and not only. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, since then the well-known professor and many others have been completely vindicated for what they said about <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> and the unprecedented lies about <b>Thembi<\/b>. Even the other relatives distanced themselves from both <b>Karstianou<\/b> and the incredible conspiracy theories. <\/p>\n<p>As <b>Stathis Kalyvas<\/b> says in a post, <b>he wrote that over the &#8220;Oxygen&#8221;<\/b>, as the <b>Tempi<\/b> rallies were then called after massive misinformation from internet bots, <b>a huge campaign of political manipulation<\/b> was set up. And developments are proving him right. <\/p>\n<p>As he argues, this was helped not only by various spouting conspiracy theorists but also by useful idiots in politics, journalism and social media. Let&#8217;s not forget that <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> and the antics of the beatings were made a flag by many opposition parties, from <b>PASOK<\/b> and <b>Konstantopoulou<\/b> to <b>Syriza<\/b> and <b>Velopoulos<\/b>, thinking that they would bring down the government and gain political benefits. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the conspiracy theories even reached the European Parliament from <b>Syriza<\/b> executives, while <b>PASOK<\/b> even made a motion of impeachment against the government for the non-existent xylolos. At the same time then <b>Zoe Konstantopoulou<\/b> even came second in the polls, trying to politically appropriate the accident. <\/p>\n<p>The professor recalled that at the time a well-known journalist reprimanded him just because he dared to criticize what <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> said. In other words, we had reached a level where a different opinion against <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> was almost forbidden. <\/p>\n<p>And he closes with the most apt word that can describe the situation we lived with <b>Tempi<\/b> and <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b>: Paranoia. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Here&#8217;s the relevant post:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Stathis Kalyvas recalled something he wrote earlier about Maria Karystianou and it seems that he is completely justified.<\/p>\n<p>    Previously, Stathis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}