Maybe it is wrong but I did not read much about China blaming US for pandemic outside couple of articles claiming that on US media (including this one) while a lot American media, politicians and ordinary people used to blame China for pandemic since the beginning. I think this is just trying to justify this campaign as a reaction mechanism by the author while he admitted that it had put lives in risk and probably was indirectly cause of death for some. And the rest of article is good.
Consider who was President at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_Chi...
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/W...
Source for never completing the multiple steps of the vaccine doses: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
Source for blood sample procurement under false pretenses: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-14117438
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
> The doctor went to Abbottabad in March, saying he had procured funds to give free vaccinations for hepatitis B. Bypassing the management of the Abbottabad health services, he paid generous sums to low-ranking local government health workers, who took part in the operation without knowing about the connection to Bin Laden. Health visitors in the area were among the few people who had gained access to the Bin Laden compound in the past, administering polio drops to some of the children.
> Afridi had posters for the vaccination programme put up around Abbottabad, featuring a vaccine made by Amson, a medicine manufacturer based on the outskirts of Islamabad.
> In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.
> It is not known exactly how the doctor hoped to get DNA from the vaccinations, although nurses could have been trained to withdraw some blood in the needle after administrating the drug.
> "The whole thing was totally irregular," said one Pakistani official. "Bilal Town is a well-to-do area. Why would you choose that place to give free vaccines? And what is the official surgeon of Khyber doing working in Abbottabad?"
> A nurse known as Bakhto, whose full name is Mukhtar Bibi, managed to gain entry to the Bin Laden compound to administer the vaccines. According to several sources, the doctor, who waited outside, told her to take in a handbag that was fitted with an electronic device. It is not clear what the device was, or whether she left it behind. It is also not known whether the CIA managed to obtain any Bin Laden DNA, although one source suggested the operation did not succeed.
For what it's worth, the CIA has committed to not use vaccination programs or workers or DNA obtained through such programs in operations going forward.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-obama-cia/white-house-vow...
1 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-interference-trudea...
https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/wdrirf/reddit_is...
It's outright depressing even casually scrolling through reddit these days with blatant ads and propaganda smothering you.
Also, what happened subsequently is a textbook example of what Chalmers Johnson described in "Blowback".
The US military should be banned from using propaganda in any form. We're not in a war. There's no justifiable reason to spend US tax payer dollars to actively lie to the rest of the world.
What a shameful and tawdry use of our institutions.
One of the core functions of the intelligence community, is to manage perceptions globally for the five eyes partners, led by the United States and the 16 intelligence agencies that comprise the intelligence community
It might be easier to think about it as the marketing budget that is spent on non-obvious influence
Reading Edward Bernays’s and his 1920 propaganda book will tell you everything you need to know about how we go about that process
In function, though it’s not the military determining those things, typically it’s Congress and other civilian oversight boards all the way up to the president dictating what those info operations are who they Target and determining impacts, etc., and risks
> The military argued that many of its fake accounts were being used for counterterrorism and asked Facebook not to take down the content
There you have it. Counter-terorrism is our new "please think of the children" to halt logical thought and make you the bad guy if you continue pressing any further on serious matters.
It's not even a "secret", you can just read "Radio Free Europe": the messaging was absolutely obvious.
This is a moronic caveat. They were posting on instagram, facebook, and twitter. I have it on good word that Americans read those. I suppose that they'll be able to post any sort of lie as long as they say they were targeting Turkmenistan or Bolivia.
So basically this campaign was just one of many?!
I am so angry right now.
> Although the Chinese vaccines were found to be less effective than the American-led shots by Pfizer and Moderna, all were approved by the World Health Organization.
Is this a false statement?
They don't make them like they used to...
I mean Andrew Wakefield was struck of for fraud in 1988 and still his stuff about vaccines causing autism lives on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Boar...
