A U.S. State Department document reveals that the three states are distributing similar propaganda messages, claiming that the Corona virus is an American biological weapon
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A document compiled by the US State Department on Tuesday reveals how media outlets and social networking accounts from China, Russia and Iran coordinate anti-American propaganda propaganda during the World Corona epidemic.
The document, published by the US political news site "Polytico," reveals a series of similarly repetitive stories in Beijing-dominated media in Beijing and Tehran. Among the false news spread is the claim that the United States developed the Corona virus as a biological weapon, that American soldiers around the world are spreading the disease, that US sanctions are the cause of Iran's high mortality rate, and that China's response to the crisis was right while the United States did damage to its operations.
The report, defined as confidential, was not fully published and the Politico News website had full access to the report. The person who published the report is the Center for Global Conflict, a relatively young body that aims to offer the government ways to deal with "information wars" in the global arena.
According to the report, the three countries' propaganda efforts, and their co-operation, were significantly strengthened during the corona epidemic that required response from the three governments, all accused of mismanaging the country's corona crisis.
The report also reveals that some of the false news was produced by state-controlled media, but more interestingly, quite a few of the false allegations were jointly circulated by the governments themselves, at various events and opportunities. The goal was not only to spread the positions of governments worldwide but Also persuade residents to support their governments.
"One of the repeated messages was that China is a strong global health leader while the United States is a weak and volatile ally," Leah Gabriel, who heads the Global Conflict Center, told the US news site. Gabriel also claims that China, exceptionally allowing Russian media to spread propaganda in China, has prepared that censorship rarely allows foreign media to report non-retroactively.
"What we saw during the health crisis is a conscious, complex and concentrated attempt to recreate a narrative," says Gabriel. China's and the US's information salt on dealing with the corona epidemic peaked last week when the US president himself announced that his country was investigating reports that the origin of the corona virus was in the Wuhan City Laboratory and was deliberately developed by the Chinese government.
While Trump expressed his remarks and said he did not know if it was a deliberate or accidental attempt, various researchers and the World Health Organization were quick to claim that all the research marks indicate that the corona virus has evolved naturally and is not a product of laboratory engineering.