2/ The conspiracy accounts also focused on distorting facts about the use of #ChemicalWeapons by the #Syria regime. The third narrative was aimed against the findings of reports by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (#OPCW).
#ChemicalWeapons#Syria#OPCW 3/ researchers discovered the false content was shared by the audience of 3 million people with 1.8 million of them being unique followers. According to data analysis, 19,000 original disinformation posts were retweeted over 670,000 times.
#ChemicalWeapons#Syria#OPCW#Russia#disinformation 4/ The report suggest that official accounts of the Russian government, namely the Russian embassy to the UK and Syria, played an important role in spreading the fake posts.
#BiologicalWeapons#Thread 1/ On 4 April the 9th #1972BWC Preparatory Committee will convene until the 11th.
It had been proposed to have a 1-day meeting, basically to decide on postponing the PrepCom until later because the NPT Review Conference was rescheduled to August, ...
2/ ... which meant overlap with the dates foreseen for the BTWC RevCon.
Also, the Non-Aligned Movement is still not able to find consensus on nominating the President for the BTWC RevCon.
However, a BTWC state party had to break the silent procedure, as a consequence of which ...
2/ Last Saturday (19/03), the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev announced that:
3/ In Sumy, at the Sumykhimprom chemical plant, nationalists mined storage facilities with ammonia and chlorine in order to mass poison the inhabitants of the Sumy region if units of the Russian Armed Forces entered the city," he said, calling it "completely outrageous facts.