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This story was produced in partnership withReporting Democracy, a cross-border journalism platform run by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Two days after a second petition demanding the dismissal of Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová garnered 125,000 signatures in just 48 hours in August, an unexpected show of support – a song. Posted by a disinformation site and shared on Šimkovičová’s own disinformation Facebook page, the tune opens with the phrase, “Martina is a minister, still protecting culture.” The page is co-managed with her close ally, Peter Kotlár, a nationalist MP and v…