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Lady Jane Franklin, Franklin’s wealthy and determined wife, instigated and even financed several of the searches.

Many Los Lobos members are in jail and the gang is thought to have instigated some of Ecuador's bloodiest prison riots.

That lesson is that "normal people in certain contexts can commit, instigate or accept horrific violence".

This portrayal of protesters as routinely instigating violence or rioting was also misleading.

The aim, one government source told me, is to "instigate an insurrection, so that people go against the government in Kyiv… they are trying to destroy social cohesion."