China Floods Facebook With Ads Blaming Trump For Chinese Virus

Chinese state media has been flooding Facebook and Instagram with undisclosed political ads blaming President Donald Trump for the Wuhan coronavirus. Facebook said in a statement that it was an “error” that the ads were not classified as political and is correcting them.

The Telegraph reports that Chinese state media has been posting undisclosed political ads to Facebook and Instagram in an attempt to downplay China’s role in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and blaming President Donald Trump. Three Chinese state media outlets, Xinhua, China Central Television, and the Global Times, have targeted ads towards users across the world in English, Chinese, and Arabic.

The ads have reportedly been seen millions of times and extol China’s efforts to fight the coronavirus while downplaying the countries domestic outbreak. The articles portray President Trump as misguided and racist and suggest that the virus may have originated in the United States. “[China] has taken stringent and forceful measures, and turned the tide on coronavirus,” said one ad. Another states: “Trump’s disruption to China has severe consequences.”

All of the ads initially ran without a political disclaimer which allowed them to hide information about who the ads were targeting and where they originated from. Several of the articles focused on President Trump’s use of the term “Chinese virus” to describe the coronavirus while others highlighted statements from Chinese president Xi Jinping.

The Telegraph reached out to Facebook about the ads, the social media network stated that it was an error that the ads were not classified as political and has since corrected the issue. A spokesperson also stated that many of the ads are running in countries where Facebook requires no disclosure making it difficult to determine how much more propaganda may have gone unnoticed on the site.

The ChinaBots are all over the place trying to deflect blame. I’ve made a drinking game of publicly calling them out in forums, calling a spade a spade 亞洲病夫 (Sick Man of Asia) Chinese are sensitive about the subject... The Chinese need to openly and transparently take full ownership of this situation. They need to make full reparations for the suffering they caused, and change their culture, all of it, into a modern civilization. Or they can crawl back into their hole and stew in their own filth, because Western societies are now fully aware of the dangerousness of their duplicity, filth, and decay. Cancel all debt toward China, confiscate all property bought in the Western Economies, refuse to do commerce, Or they can crawl back into their hole and stew in their own filth, because Western societies are now fully aware of the dangerousness of their duplicity, filth, and decay The ChinaBots are out in force, they tolerate poorly mockery, and are convinced of the superiority of the Middle Kingdom, well, they can just kiss my ass I work in a hospital and daily face COVID

Partner, we are aware of the Chinese outright theft, Cheating, Copying and Lying about the huge Technology transfers to China with approval of the Chintoons, W. and "The America Hating Piece of Work Obama."

We need to stop this garbage in making the Chinese the preferred supplier. All U.S. companies need to do this and all the other countries need to stop trading with the Chicoms.

Hey..... just hold on a dang-tootin minute.

I saw big foot once, or at least I thought I did, then again, it coulda been the Everclear.

Hell... I don’t know, I’m still confused about it.

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