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SERIES: Russia and China appear to coordinate barrage of disinformation about Russia's ever-changing rationale for invading Ukraine

Four-part series: Russia and China have been using official government accounts and state-controlled outlets to spread false claims about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Hoaxlines
Mar 10
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Hoaxlines has divided the report into four sections for ease of reading and organization. Part 2 is the section that is likely of most interest to readers as the analysis of the recent Russian and Chinese content appears here.

Part 1: The history of the bioweapons disinformation narratives and what is fact or fiction.

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Russia and China resurrect disinformation rooted in Soviet-era active measures
Russia and China have been using official government accounts to spread false claims about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. False claims implying or asserting that the US has biological weapons in Ukraine are not new. In the 1980s Russian disinformation suggested the US created the HIV virus…
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4 months ago · Hoaxlines

Part 2: Russia’s changing story and closely timed, mirroring claims from Russia and China.

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Russia changed its story about bioweapons. Then Russia and China flooded the world with disinformation.
Similar messages dramatically increased from both Russia and China at the same time On March 6, state-controlled accounts belonging to Russia and China increased the number of posts they published referencing a Ukraine-US bioweapons conspiracy. The increases may reflect some formal coordination in information operations, given that the increases were bo…
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4 months ago · Hoaxlines

Part 3: The Ukraine-US-Bioweapon narrative is similar to the conspiracy claims about COVID-19.

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False Ukraine-bioweapons claims from Russia and China echoes their COVID-19 disinformation
Bioweapon conspiracy theories about Ukraine are reminiscent of the claims promoted, especially by Russia and China, in 2020 and 2021. Iran was a distant third-biggest contributor or amplifier of disinformation. Hoaxlines found it had posted about the US-made bioweapons claim…
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4 months ago · Hoaxlines

Part 4: Clippings from the state-controlled media about the bioweapon disinformation from China and Russia.

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Russia and China synchronize on false Ukraine-bioweapon conspiracy claims
Russia produces the most content by a large margin. The first two largest producers of state-controlled media are RT and Sputnik News, which have been blocked in the EU by Meta. Meta promised in 2020 that it would stop allowing state-controlled outlets to advertise but its words have been somewhat hollow. Twitter…
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