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Several accounts on Twitter and Telegram are claiming that Finland is set to join NATO, citing what they purport is a recent vote in the Finnish parliament over the issue.
The claims that the Finnish Parliament has voted for the country to join NATO are accompanied by an image of how the vote supposedly went, showing the overwhelming majority of Finnish MPs giving their approval.
"The Finnish parliament voted to join NATO. Putin tried hard to expand NATO," one user said.
Helsinki has not voted to join NATO.
No such vote has yet taken place, and the image is simply a graphic representation of the current voting intentions among Finnish MPs.
The prospect of NATO membership for Finland, which has an 830-mile border with Russia, has been gaining traction since the start of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine on February 24.