Propaganda

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…

As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, China has shifted its propaganda machine into high gear, in an effort to change the narrative about the virus's origins and the Chinese response. But when this crisis is finally over, people will remember what China's leaders did, not what they said. CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA –…

Chengdu, China - On March 18, China marked a milestone in its "people's war" against the new coronavirus. For the first time in three months, there were no new local infections in the central province of Hubei, where more than 60 million people remain confined to their homes as part…

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says it's wrong to look back at all the mistakes her boss has made in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. She spoke to Fox News' Howard Kurtz on Sunday morning: I don't know why the media has to continue to look backwards. The president…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. Amazon has introduced mandatory overtime, increased hourly wages, and scrapped its security checks as it tries to motivate warehouse workers to keep coming to work. Four workers speaking to Business…

Italy is in the middle of a war against an enemy that’s both invisible and far too visible in its impact: The Covid-19 pandemic.But the Italian right-wing hasn’t been fighting the same war. The true enemies—it has desperately tried to remind its receding base—are visible, and the ones right-wing populists…

Across Sweden, young Viking enthusiasts have been angered by the actions of some far-right organisations who have adopted Viking iconography to represent white supremacist propaganda. One, in particular, is the Nordic Resistance Movement, known as the NRM.Viking enthusiast Robin Lundin is the co-founder of an association called Vikingar Mot Rasism…

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition (nytimes.com) Posted by msmash on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:00AM from the tussle-continues dept. A global arms race for a coronavirus vaccine is underway. The New York…