Category: disinformation

From ‘Conspiracy’ to ‘Racism’ Attacks: Sifting Through Disinformation and Labelling in Virus Origin Discussions

News Analysis Until very recently, any suggestion of the possibility that a lab leak led to the COVID-19 pandemic would be overwhelmingly struck down by many media outlets as a “conspiracy theory.” This alternative to the natural origin hypothesis received more mainstream recognition after 18 prominent scientists, among them a member of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science…


From ‘Conspiracy’ to ‘Racism’: Sifting Through Disinformation and Labelling in Virus Origin Discussions

News Analysis Until very recently, any suggestion of the possibility that a lab leak led to the COVID-19 pandemic would be overwhelmingly struck down by many media outlets as a “conspiracy theory.” This alternative to the natural origin hypothesis received more mainstream recognition after 18 prominent scientists, among them a member of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science…


China’s Misleading Propaganda: Using Prison Riot Scene to Dramatize Hate Attacks Of Chinese Americans

A video claiming to show a hate attack on Chinese Americans in California is widely circulated in China and other Asian countries. However, it was verified that the video was actually a gang riot that occurred in an Ecuadorian prison in February this year. Beginning on April 26, the video started circulating on multiple social…


Uncle Sam Needs You for a Counter-Psychological Warfare Strategy

Commentary Divide and conquer, or divide and rule, was a maxim Chinese strategist Sun Tzu stressed in 500 B.C. Sun wrote that the supreme military commander “subjugates other people’s armies without engaging in battle, captures other people’s fortified cities without attacking them.” Defeating an enemy “without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.” In the…


McConnell Says Corporate Pushback Against Georgia Voting Law Is ‘Economic Blackmail’ and Disinformation

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday admonished corporate leaders for their criticism of Georgia’s new voting law, accusing them of falling for “absurd disinformation” and of “dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government.” “Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex,” McConnell said in a statement. “Americans do not need…


McConnell: Corporate Pushback Against Georgia Voting Law Is ‘Economic Blackmail’ and Disinformation

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday admonished corporate leaders for their criticism of Georgia’s new voting law, accusing them of falling for “absurd disinformation” and of “dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government.” “Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex,” McConnell said in a statement. “Americans do not need…


Chinese Regime’s Disinformation Campaign on Uyghur Genocide Debunked

Recently, the Chinese communist regime has arranged a series propaganda productions to refute the international community’s accusation of genocide against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang. But it has since been revealed by the outside world that the figures used in the regime’s campaign are fake. Experts pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s…


‘Cold War 2.0’: China Confronts the US With ‘No Holds Barred,’ Says Former National Security Adviser

Believing itself untouchable, China’s communist party is ramping up rhetoric about perceived American weaknesses in a bid to ascend as the next world leader, according to former deputy national security adviser KT McFarland. “They are looking at the rest of the world and saying, okay, America, you are where you are, but we want to…


Russia Joins China’s Wuhan Virus Lie Campaign

Commentary From the beginning of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic, China’s communist government has lied about the disease, its origin and its transmissibility. It has also avoided an accurate accounting of the contagion’s health and economic consequences within the People’s Republic, always insisting Chinese Communist Party leadership has minimized the pandemic’s effects. We know for a…


‘Disinformation’: US Rejects Chinese State-Run Media Reports About American Diplomats in Hong Kong

The U.S. State Department has accused Chinese state-run media of reporting disinformation about its diplomats in Hong Kong who recently tested positive for COVID-19. Washington temporarily closed its consulate in Hong Kong for “deep disinfection and cleaning” on March 15 after two of its American employees came down with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which…