Posted on 03/21/2020 8:00:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned disinformation campaigns from China, Russia, and Iran that aim to "disparage" U.S. efforts to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
A reporter asked Pompeo whether there is "any particular locus for this disinformation."
"It’s pretty diffuse, unfortunately. But we’ve certainly seen it come from places like China, and Russia, and Iran, where there are coordinated efforts to disparage what America is doing and our activity to do all the things that President Trump has set in motion here," Pompeo responded.
China's Communist Party has blamed the U.S. for the virus, claiming that the coronavirus originated in the U.S., not in China. Trump has pushed back against this narrative by repeatedly referring to it as the "Chinese coronavirus." Pompeo himself called it the "Chinese virus" early in his remarks. Yet many left-leaning American media outlets have repeated the Chinese propaganda line that calling the virus "Chinese" is racist.
In order to combat this disinformation, Pompeo suggested the American people should "go to trusted sources for their information." He also said American officials have confronted the Chinese, Russian, and Iranian governments over the disinformation campaigns.
"We’ve made clear, we’ve spoken to these countries directly, that they need to knock it off, that we don’t approve of it," the secretary of State said. "This idea of transparency and accurate information is very important."
He went on to insist that confronting misinformation is not about retribution or politics but about saving lives.
"There’s been some discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it, and I’ve been very critical. We need to know immediately, the world is entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world
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We are now seeing the deepster-Russo-CHICOM collusion.
I’ve wondered why I’ve heard nothing about this virus in Russia. Putin’s docs must have miracle cure on hand.
Russia never misses a chance to attack the US. Our eternal enemy.
Still waiting for a media outlet to report that weeks after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was diagnosed with the CommieFlu only one of his teammates (whose locker was adjacent) has tested positive.
That no such reports are out there leads me to believe that no further infections have occurred among the Jazz players. I could be wrong about this.
“...I’ve wondered why I’ve heard nothing about this virus in Russia. Putin’s docs must have miracle cure on hand.....”
No prominent communist RAT politicians have contracted it either. Is there antidote they all took beforehand?? Or are they taking the anti-malaria pills that they don’t want the “unwashed masses” to take? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Our locsl news just had a former resident, who is now living in China on. He said he doesn’t understand why its taken the US so long to take action and how no one in his area had it and why aren’t Americans wearing masks.
Of course no one asked him, or told him, about how communist countries use propaganda to keep their populations under control, that the Chicoms ignored the warnings and squashed the attempts of their medical experts to warn the world, that China controls most of the production of medical products and won’t ship them, and finally to FOAD!
Not a mention of what Russia did in the article, just typical ongoing accusations.
“go to trusted sources for their information.”
Yup. In other words, don’t trust NBCABCCBSPBSCNN...
Putin kicked the deep state Cabal out years ago. That is why it is not spreading. He has removed the bad actors.
I trust Trump over that a$$hole Putin or his mindless followers.
Yet many left-leaning American media outlets have repeated the Chinese propaganda line that calling the virus “Chinese” is racist.
Yet, calling it “American” isn’t racist??
That’s because media don’t pay attention.
Most people are sent to work from homes, elderly under curfew, gyms and pools, theaters closed, concerts, sports events canceled.
People coming from China or Italy are tested and quarantined.
People with severe respiratory symptoms hospitalized.
I personally know an older couple with a husband hospitalized a wife issued an order to a wife to stay home until further notice. Both were tested upon arrival from Vietnam although I didn’t talk to them and don’t know positive or not because a man is still in hospital and a woman is sitting at home.
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