How Russia, China, and other governments use coronavirus disinformation to reshape geopolitics: COVID-19 is being incorporated into government propaganda efforts like the
Strategic Culture Foundation—which
published, according to the US State Department, “Western fringe
thinkers and conspiracy theorists” for its target audience of
Westerners—comes as no surprise. The precursor to the Foreign
Intelligence Service,
the KGB, ran a global misinformation campaign in the 1980s that accused the United States of developing HIV for use as a “
racial weapon,”
weakening American diplomacy during the Cold War. Once again, a health
crisis is being used as fodder for misinformation that countries like
Russia hope will help reshape the geopolitical playing field.sinformation%20that%20countries%20like%20Russia%20hope%20will%20help%20reshape%20the%20geopolitical%20playing%20field.
