US told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort
US told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort
The Pentagon distributed social media content on the safety and efficacy of China's Sinovac vaccine. Read more at straitstimes.com.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18426493
They also pinky-promise that they are not running current psy-ops on many other topics. (Tee hee.)
I'm most interested in why the Pentagon did this. It seems like an weird thing to do. It also seems like, whatever upsides might have been there, the downsides of blowback if the scheme was caught almost certianky outweigh the upsides.
They attacked Chinas covid vaccine, which while less effective than the American/European version, they made available to lower income countries much sooner. By maligning the vaccine, the Pentagon could attack China in the developing world.
This worked, but also made the Philippines way antivax in general, directly leading to death.
What wrong with these people