Stalin
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anyone who thinks that the US is anything less than a squalid military dictatorship should take note of this foray by the WarParty Pentagon
clique into politics...
"..The US military carried out a clandestine smear campaign to damage public opinion about China’s coronavirus vaccine, Sinovac, according to a Reuters investigation.The propaganda drive targeted populations across the developing world at the height of the pandemic and continued into the Joe Biden administration.
Reuters outlined the operation in a report published on Friday, citing unnamed US military officials familiar with the mission. The campaign was run from a “psychological operations center” in Florida between the spring of 2020 and mid-2021, and aimed to discredit the Chinese vaccine using a “combination of fake social media accounts on multiple platforms.”
“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective. We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud,” a senior military officer involved in the program admitted to Reuters.
The outlet identified around 300 phony X accounts used to disparage Sinovac in the Philippines, and described similar efforts in Central Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the developing world. The fake profiles garnered tens of thousands of followers before they were deleted from the platform.
Muslim users were targeted in particular, with the campaign seeking to “amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China’s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law.”
The operation in the Philippines was carried out despite “strong objections” from top US diplomats in the region, and the Pentagon reportedly ignored concerns about the “collateral impact” of its disinformation. At least six senior State Department officials opposed the strategy, arguing that a global pandemic was “the wrong time to instill fear or anger through a psychological operation.”
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comrade stalin
gaza famine is still the issue
clique into politics...
"..The US military carried out a clandestine smear campaign to damage public opinion about China’s coronavirus vaccine, Sinovac, according to a Reuters investigation.The propaganda drive targeted populations across the developing world at the height of the pandemic and continued into the Joe Biden administration.
Reuters outlined the operation in a report published on Friday, citing unnamed US military officials familiar with the mission. The campaign was run from a “psychological operations center” in Florida between the spring of 2020 and mid-2021, and aimed to discredit the Chinese vaccine using a “combination of fake social media accounts on multiple platforms.”
“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective. We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud,” a senior military officer involved in the program admitted to Reuters.
The outlet identified around 300 phony X accounts used to disparage Sinovac in the Philippines, and described similar efforts in Central Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the developing world. The fake profiles garnered tens of thousands of followers before they were deleted from the platform.
Muslim users were targeted in particular, with the campaign seeking to “amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China’s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law.”
The operation in the Philippines was carried out despite “strong objections” from top US diplomats in the region, and the Pentagon reportedly ignored concerns about the “collateral impact” of its disinformation. At least six senior State Department officials opposed the strategy, arguing that a global pandemic was “the wrong time to instill fear or anger through a psychological operation.”
Pentagon Ran Secret Campaign To Smear China's Covid Vaccine - News From Antiwar.com
The US military carried out a clandestine smear campaign to damage public opinion about China’s coronavirus vaccine, Sinovac, according to a Reuters investigation.The propaganda drive targeted populations across the developing world at the height of the pandemic and continued into the Joe Biden...
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comrade stalin
gaza famine is still the issue
