Somehow I missed this 2024 Reuters report on how the first Trump administration ordered the US military to carry out a psyop campaign that spread disinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
In particular, the campaign falsely claimed that the Chinese vaccine ChinaVac is unsafe/haram or ineffective. It also doubted the usefulness of face masks. As a result, lots of people died.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
#USA #Israel #Palestine : #War / #Gaza / #unrwa / #Media / #PropagandaWarfare
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/smoke-mirrors-how-israeli-agitprop-lies-become-fact/
That coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the US mass media is distorted by a bias in favor of Israel is hardly news to people more or less in command of their faculties. But events since October 7 have brought to light examples that go well beyond the usual daily distortions to outright lying—lies that rival those of the WMD fabrications used to justify the US invasion of Iraq.
#Putin #strategy #PropagandaWarfare
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"Sadly, these people - on the far right and the far left - influence policymakers and vote in elections."
Yes and no.
No, not sadly. Intentionally. Today, for instance, the military intelligence published a report that the #FSB has been making big efforts to recruit #German #soldiers as #agents.
They were 👉deemed particularly vulnerable to recruitment, if they were party members...
If you read to the end of my thread, you will see that I've just argued for exactly that. 😉
There's no need 2 be infuriated. This is, in my view, shrewd #Soviet/ #intelligence style #InformationWarfare/ #disinformation.
#TuckerCarlson's been an important #RussianAsset 4 a long time. We must not fall for #Russian talking points in this #PropagandaWarfare but must illuminate the real intentions:
the illegitimate #PutlerRegime is an expansionist, revisionist empirical power.
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