China has waged “targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns” amid the pandemic, the EU’s top diplomat is claiming. Josep Borrell’s office has released a report on the matter, but it cited some dubious sources.
The report, published on Wednesday, details the EU’s response to an “unprecedented infodemic” – that is, the propagation of false or misleading information about Covid-19 – coming amid the pandemic. Some of it was blamed on “foreign influence operations” and singled out China and Russia as culprits.
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