How Russia, China, and other governments use coronavirus disinformation to reshape geopolitics

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.