The reaction is rare enough to be reported. Since the start of the health crisis, the European Union, which reflected the positions - that is to say, the divisions - of its member countries, had rather given way in the face of pressure from the People's Republic of China. In April, she even agreed to soften her criticism in a report, under pressure from Beijing. But on Wednesday, the Czech vice-president of the Values and Transparency Committee, Vera Jourova, did not mince words. She accused China and Russia of having led disinformation campaigns on social media in Europe and around the world during the health crisis. " We have enough evidence, " she said.
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Until then, disinformation tactics, aimed at exploiting the divisions of Western democracies and pushing a model of authoritarian political governance, were the prerogative of Russia's Vladimir Putin and his famous "troll factories". But since
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