Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.
The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
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.
What the fuck!? Come on!!!
This has to be terrible news for conspiracy theorists. Our government got caught doing something shady overseas but it was encouraging other people to NOT vaccinate, which is the thing the conspiracy theorists thought our government wanted everyone to do.
I'm legitimately interested to see how/if Fox or OAN report on this. It should be entertaining.
As an American, I am ashamed that my country's government does acts of pure evil like this. I'm sorry rest of the world, I wish my voice was more than but a whisper while on a St Patrick's Day bar crawl in Boston.
In my honest opinion whoever proposed this, approved this, and ultimately executed this should be persecuted for something akin to shouting fire leading to a stampede and deaths.
Actions like this are exactly why we probably shouldn't have a completely opaque society.
If we spent half the energy on improving our lives that we spend on fucking people over, we'd have a utopia by now. Or at least less lead in our pipes.
America is a global superpower which - apparently - spends some of its most secretive efforts on petty lashbacks to Chinese propaganda. And I'll be damned if our most secretive efforts don't also end up costing us the most taxes (relative to their effective output). I know that Twitter opens its firehouse of data to government programs to support social media analysis. I'm sure Google and Meta do as well. They are aiding these psychological campaigns.
Doesn't matter to whom they did it. This BS spreads around the world, making people hate each other. What a fucked up world we live in.
This is ridiculous. Fucking spooks
The Philippines is a major US ally in the region, hopefully they raise a stink about this. Nothing changes pentagon policy quicker than a potential loss of military strength.
it‘s okay. They’re just protecting our values, or morals, or culture, or something. Ah, I‘m sorry, it‘s markets.
Well that seems to have backfired.
Excuse me, I seem to have facepalmed my eyeballs into the next room. Fuck.
FFS
Government funded covidiots... Jesus fucking Christ
The Shinzo Abe situations are always weird to me. One or more people decided to do this, in the sense that the buck stops somewhere.
It's easy to find addresses, workplaces, family members, an itinerary.
It's like in order to make it to these positions you need to have a defective brain that allows you to hurt lots of other people while ignoring how easy it is for one of them to reach out and touch you. I'd need constant anxiety meds.
The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid
that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found.Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate
FilipinosAmericans, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign.Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in
the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.FTFT. Also horse de-wormer, hydroxychloriquine, and bleach. The Pentagon was just doing what other wrong-thinking military psyops orgs were doing. The MAGAts were, of course, the targets for those.
Unsurprisingly led by the demented orange rapist who embraced all the garbage and spread it widely, and bigly.
Nothing sinister my govt does can really surprise me anymore.
Undermine China, pave the way for BongBong, you know. Foreign policy stuff.
No doubt, we had our former 34 time convicted felon president* do that to us.
Wow that doesn't look good.
Maybe it's a psyops to make conspirationists think taking your vax IS in fact the rebelious position ? Take that CIA !
Fuck Trump.
Even a lame excuse is still just an excuse
Oh Beau of the Fifth Column........
Edit:
Here is his video:
Covid is related to SARs which East Asian people seem more susceptible to. This is very evil. Well, hopefully this was only under Trump's turn, Biden doesn't need more ammo for Genocide Joe.