All The World’s Great Powers Using Disinformation–Including America

By Derek Royden Photos: YouTube Screenshots On June 14th, Reuters broke a story so shocking that it should have been headline news in the United States and around the world. Admittedly, the investigative report entered a news cycle that’s been particularly full, even for a presidential election year but, as someone who spends hours reading the news every day, it surprised me that I didn’t see it until a follow-up piece was published a month later titled U.S. told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort. The story itself concerned a covert disinformation campaign waged by US special forces first targeting the Philippines and later expanding to southeast Asia, central Asia and the Middle East.The effort began in 2020 when the former US President was in office and continued into President Biden’s term, a demonstration of the bipartisan nature of much of American foreign policy regardless of who sits in the Oval office. What the operation amounted to was an effort to spread disinformation about the effectiveness of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine and to a lesser extent, Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) being provided by the People’s Republic to other countries. It should be noted that Sinovac was the...