Pentagon Ran Effort To Smear Chinese Covid Shots In Philippines

The Pentagon on Friday stood by its decision to conduct a clandestine disinformation campaign in the Philippines in 2020 that aimed to sow doubt about China's COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the global pandemic -- a campaign that was first revealed in a bombshell report by Reuters.
The U.S. military launched the disinformation campaign following a decision by then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper to loosen restrictions on such operations, and used phony online accounts posing as Filipinos in an effort "to discredit China's Sinovac inoculation -- payback for Beijing's efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic.”. At the time, the Philippines was struggling to vaccinate its population and had one of the worst death rates in the region.
The Philippines disinformation campaign marks an unusual use of military power in a country that has often been a U.S. ally in a strategically crucial region and at a time of great public health risks. Lisa Lawrence, a Defense Department spokeswoman, did not deny Reuters' reporting on the operation, which was done under the administration of former President Donald Trump and continued for some time under the Biden administration.
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I spent a lot of time in the Philippines, in fact I'm there right now. The fact that this country is in the middle of a potential cold war between US and China is unbelievable. I will say that during COVID, the PH government did (fairly) strictly enforce the WHO guidelines. I've never really followed Philippine social media, but thinking back, there were a lot of conspiracy theories floating around here. I wish I had known about the US government's involvement at the time so I could have paid more attention.

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