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' Russian media have deployed a significant disinformation campaign against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus, generate panic and sow distrust, according to a European Union document seen by Reuters.
The Kremlin denied the allegations on Wednesday, saying they were unfounded and lacked common sense.
The EU document said the Russian campaign, pushing fake news online in English, Spanish, Italian, German and French, uses contradictory, confusing and malicious reports to make it harder for the EU to communicate its response to the pandemic.
A significant disinformation campaign by Russian state media and pro-Kremlin outlets regarding COVID-19 is ongoing, said the nine-page internal document, dated March 16, using the name of the disease that can be caused by the coronavirus.
The overarching aim of Kremlin disinformation is to aggravate the public health crisis in Western countries...in
line with the Kremlins broader strategy of attempting to subvert European societies, the document produced by the EUs foreign policy arm, the European External Action Service, said.'>>>
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disinformation/russia-feeding-disinformation-about-coronavirus-to-sow-panic-in-west-eu-document-idUSKBN21518F?
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)Putin is really pushing to get those sanctions lifted.
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)So is Trump and Fox News
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)crimycarny
(1,351 posts)I've seen some posts that aren't based on science but based on personal opinion. I think those should be kept to a minimum especially when predicting dire outcomes. Listen to the scientists, be informed by real data not stories.
Praek3
(149 posts)I am so sick of that beady-eyed, balding runt, who forces his exposed crepey-skinned saggy chest upon the world, sticking his hands in everyone's business. The Russian people average a yearly income of $6000. He can't run his own country let alone anyone else's. And Diarrhea Don idolizes him. For fuck's sake. The rest of the world needs to put horse's ass Putin in his place.