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Remember the cold war Soviet disinformation campaign “Operation Infektion” that blamed the US for the AIDS virus? A similar pattern of spreading disinformation is evolving alongside the current #coronaviruse outbreak. ⬇️
While epidemiologists work to identify the exact source of the outbreak, officially known as 2019-nCov, pro-Kremlin actors are already blaming the U.S. for supposedly using bioweapons to disseminate the virus.
In 1983 a little-known Indian newspaper — later exposed to be financed by the #USSR — published an anonymous letter pushing a conspiracy that AIDS was developed in a U.S. bio-weapons lab. Over yrs, the false narrative was picked up by other media, before making its way to the US.
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