Posted on 04/07/2020 9:29:29 PM PDT by familyop
The goal of this campaign was to downplay health risks across the American public, and to cast doubt on the critical warnings and directions given by the U.S. Government, state and local officials, public health agencies, and experts in the field....This malicious content was seeded into public media in China, and within hours it was rapidly distributed by social media users who believed these narratives and then amplified them...Notably, many of those conspiracy sites are home-grown U.S. disinformation sites that were created for their creators own political agendas.
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Looks like your guess was a good one.
The information was from organizations that study foreign/domestic misinformation campaigns. ...behind the link.
Appears the flubros may have been unwitting accomplices to the Chicom attempt to maximize death and destruction in the U.S.
Wow and here I thought the disinformation campaigns were all just coming from the Democrat Party and their media.
Appears the flubros may have been unwitting accomplices to the Chicom attempt to maximize death and destruction in the U.S.
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Really? IMHO, you are a major league Asshoe!
Small services and entertainment businesses might better prepare for the next disaster by avoiding high flooring costs (including lease, etc.), avoiding debts and beginning to save as advised by our forefathers (Greatest Generation and before).
What’s the opposite of a flu bro?
It’s far more likely the Chicoms adopted a cultural theme that was already extant. And sharply critical of the zeitgeist.
And is exploiting it to sew division and conflict.
This so all of us do not turn our gaze to them. All at once.
This shows they are desperately afraid.
Flubros are not accomplices and not traitors. But there’s some trash following them around.
Much of the disinformation weve seen is the classic scamming, he added. Ellis said that this involves fake information that will then get people to fall for classic phishing attacks by promising a cure or other solution for the disease. Ellis said that one of the results of this disinformation is the panic buying thats shown up in countries impacted by the coronavirus.
Sounds like the response by Chicken Freepers.
I pegged wumao over a month ago.
Ya did.
Sure. And muh Russia got Trump elected. If the Chinese thought they were making us not believe our media and politicians then they wasted their money because we already knew that!
If they seek to alter elections just who were they trying to help?
Have the media and leftist politicians tried to amp up the fear-mongering and keep the crisis going in order to damage Trump? Absolutely. But that doesnt mean there is no crisis, and that its all fake. Theres a vast difference between the two.
There is no question this virus is unusually contagious and dangerous. Ive seen some of the flubros now trying to use the fact that it appears that total deaths in the U.S. may end up much lower than earlier estimates to claim that this means the virus was overhyped and is nothing more than a run of the mill flu. Im sorry, but thats just foolish.
Do they stop to think that maybe, just maybe everyone being locked in their houses for a month just might have had something to do with those numbers being lower than expected? And that had we not done this we would likely have had a runaway situation just as predicted?
And finally, if as this story claims, the Chinese government has been trying to manipulate the American public to get them to disregard public warnings and safety measures (presumably to try to maximize the effects of the virus - a very believable scenario), then as I said those who just cavalierly blew off the whole thing like it was a joke certainly didnt hurt the Chicoms disinformation campaign.
I just wish people would realize theres a VAST difference between a real medical crisis that requires unprecedented mitigation efforts, even though it may be being used by the left to score political points, and instead just claiming because of that politicization that its all a hoax. The latter is patently foolish, and it doesnt make us look very wise.
Data shows it’s not the same as the flu this year at least.
Next Year? Who [well NOT the UN WHO] knows?
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