Propaganda

NEW YORK: The coronavirus has given rise to a flood of conspiracy theories, disinformation and propaganda, eroding public trust and undermining health officials in ways that could elongate and even outlast the pandemic. Claims that the virus is a foreign bioweapon, a partisan invention or part of a plot to…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta took fire on social media Tuesday as critics suggested he was downplaying serious mistakes made by the World Health Organization (WHO) to go after President Trump.During Tuesday's coronavirus task-force briefing, Trump said…

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U.S. Army sergeant Maatje Benassi was among several hundred U.S. service men and women who traveled to Wuhan to take part in the Military World Games in October. But, according to a widely-believed conspiracy theory, the 52-year-old road racing cyclist carried something else with her on her trip to China:…

After seven years of living in Bologna, first as a student and now as a business consultant, Zhang Yimeng has come to consider northern Italy as his second home. And so, when COVID-19 began rampaging through Europe, the 27-year-old from China’s Henan province threw himself behind relief efforts. Value China,…

A huge Russian An-124-100 military transport plane laden with boxes of masks and medical supplies will arrive in the U.S. Wednesday to help the U.S. in its battle with coronavirus. But analysts say the aid flight, organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, is more of a PR stunt than a…

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and CNN’s Don Lemon have joined the growing calls for cable networks ― including their own ― to stop broadcasting President Donald Trump’s daily briefings on the coronavirus pandemic live. Last week, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said if it were to her, “I would stop putting those briefings on…

By: New York Times | Washington | Updated: March 29, 2020 2:44:37 pm Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP/File)Written by Julian E. Barnes, Matthew Rosenberg and Edward Wong China and Russia have both seized on the novel coronavirus to wage disinformation campaigns that seek to…

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got…