Posted on 03/15/2020 7:12:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
China, Russia and Iran are flooding the global information space with false claims about the new coronavirus, according to U.S. officials, who say one of the biggest lies — that the virus that causes COVID-19 is a U.S. bioweapon and was brought to China by U.S. Army personnel — is just the latest in a “surge of propaganda” aimed at undermining America’s image on the world stage.
Beijing, Moscow and Tehran are using a vast web of social media accounts, fake news outlets and state-controlled global satellite media to promote false claims by academics and, at times, government officials to blame Washington for the crisis now gripping most of humanity.
The head of a key State Department counterdisinformation office said U.S. officials are ramping up their own efforts to counter lies about the new coronavirus that were first seeded by Russia in January and that China is now pushing in a bid to make Beijing appear as a superior global power to the United States.
U.S. Special Envoy Lea Gabrielle, who leads the department’s Global Engagement Center, told The Washington Times on Sunday that the Chinese are “engaged in an all-out aggressive campaign to try to reshape the global narrative around the coronavirus, essentially to the degree of trying to provide an alternate reality of what has actually happened since December.”
Ms. Gabrielle made the assertion in an exclusive interview amid a widening row between Washington and Beijing that burst into public view last week when the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry suggested on Twitter that the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan.
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I would not put it past china, iran or even the US deep state to release something like this. The American economy was just too hot.
Whatever....
Our media isn’t much better
I practice, the Chinese need to “save face” makes it imperative to always shift the blame elsewhere.
Chinese people are never at fault for anything. Never.
Apologizing is simply out of the question.
China, Russia, Iran......
.....and Democrats.
Flashback
Coronavirus may have originated in lab linked to China’s biowarfare program
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Sunday, January 26, 2020
.......One ominous sign, said a U.S. official, is that false rumors circulating on the Chinese internet claim the virus is part of a U.S. conspiracy to spread germ weapons. That could indicate China is preparing propaganda outlets to counter any charges that the new coronavirus escaped from one of Wuhan’s civilian or defense research laboratories.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-link-china-biowarfare-program-possible/
Color me surprised.
Worse, much worse. China, Russia, and Iran don’t hide their intentions, our “noble” media pretends they are informing us. Pure unadulterated crap.
Wuhuflu comes from the well in Qom.
Pass it on...
Wouldn't the Chinese be admitting their homeland security is the worst on Earth to allow such a military penetration?
Well the WHO are part of it by renaming the Wuhan Coronavirus to Covid-19 where in previous cases, Ebola, Zika, SARS, etc... are all named after a geographical region or feature. Can’t stigmatize the Communists.
Articles about these claims have showed up on FR. So what. It does not mean that most people believe it is anything but propaganda.
It can’t be, greenbumkin, redpineapple, and msyticsquirl have assured me that media is totally legit and not bought by international shills!!!
Count your stars if this doesn’t lead to a war.
no. I really think they are trying to spread it here. We could have used same technique..but we didnt
Send over a bunch of sick people.
I had an incident that involved a weird case of a Chinese lady coughing all over some people
I dont think she is a Chinese Spy. Just a inconsiderate witch
but what she was going is how you would do it
it was very bizarre.
I would not put it past china, iran or even the US deep state to release something like this. The American economy was just too hot.
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Well, if China had planned to release it to the US, it would be like the soldier who panned to throw a grenade at an enemy but, after pulling the pin, dropped the grenade at his own feet.
One truth. The US public is now better informed of our dependence on China for manufactured drugs, face masks and +++ that we should be buying from other friendly countries
Same effectiveness as in the 2016 election... did Russia change your mind about anything? Ukraine? China? Even our own lame ass media? I suspect that anyone making a big deal out of what some foreign country is saying on social media is a deep stater wanting more power or is in normal work mode trying to justify their pathetic existence.
The Wu Flu hysetria has obviously been hardcore Psywar. One look at Drudge confirms it.
It can’t be, greenbumkin, redpineapple, and msyticsquirl have assured me that media is totally legit and not bought by international shills!!!
You would think after the Russia hoax they would know better than to trust every anecdote reported but here we are.
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