Pentagon ran secret anti-vaxx campaign to undermine China (they thought)
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.
First off: Reuters......a leading name in Fake News..... so..... is it even true?
But - for fun - if we take Reuters at face value - Lots to unpack here.
- covid vaxx are neither safe nor effective, so Pentagon may have ironically saved lives.
Except,
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Pentagon didn't mean to. They arrived at it backwards.
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Pentagon true aim was probably to push Pfizer & Moderna, ie. Western Big Pharma.
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Article mentions how they do online propaganda - in essence, lots of phony accounts say fake emotional things - how libs push lib hoaxes.
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Pentagon did this propaganda in 2020 on Twitter 1.0....... while Twitter 2.0 (Elon/X) claims to shut down most bots & fake-people accounts; we'll see.
Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.
- Again....... Pentagon was ironically right.
“COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came from China, don’t trust China!” one typical tweet from July 2020 read in Tagalog
except a bit incomplete, Pentagon failed to mention St. Fauci's role.