Did Vladimir Putin get caught at his own game?
Since the start of the pandemic, the Kremlin has been regularly accused of disseminating false information about Covid-19 or Western vaccines.
To the point of increasing the distrust of its own population vis-à-vis serum.
Only 43% of the 146 million Russians are vaccinated against the disease.
Sad irony for the country which, a year earlier, in December 2020, was the first to register a vaccine against the coronavirus.
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The Russian authorities are also suspected of having launched a campaign to denigrate Western vaccines in order to promote Sputnik V, developed by the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamaleya.
Last August, Facebook announced in particular that it had detected a disinformation operation against AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech, organized by a British communications firm called Fazze.
The agency worked to disseminate petitions as widely as possible and ...
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