{"id":204070,"date":"2020-03-18T08:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204070"},"modified":"2020-03-21T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T07:14:10","slug":"russian-media-blames-britain-for-the-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204070","title":{"rendered":"Russian media blames BRITAIN for the coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">News Brief \u2013 March 18, 2020<\/h1>\n<h5>Illustrating how even a health scare can be used for propaganda purposes, the media in the UK and US are now suggesting that Russia is exploiting Coronavirus.<\/h5>\n<h5>The <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/16\/opinion\/russian-interference-coronavirus.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/span>, for example, suggests that Russia was not only supporting \u201cWhite supremacist groups\u201d, it was also using the Coronavirus scare in order to \u201ccorrode and divide\u201d the West.<\/h5>\n<h5>So it seems that Russia will stop at nothing to undermine the West. Or so the corporate media and the EU would have us believe.<\/h5>\n<h5>Thus the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d65736da-684e-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3?desktop=true&amp;segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Financial Times<\/span><\/a> reports on a Kremlin backed disinformation campaign on Coronavirus.<\/h5>\n<h5>According to the FT:<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201dRussian pro-Kremlin media have mounted a \u201csignificant disinformation campaign\u201d to aggravate the coronavirus pandemic crisis in western countries by destroying confidence in the emergency response, according to an internal EU report.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe effort aims to stoke \u201cconfusion, panic and fear\u201d and stop people obtaining good information about the contagion, as part of a broader strategy to \u201csubvert European societies from within\u201d, the European diplomatic service analysis says.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>Put this together with claims that Russia was meddling in U.S. internal affairs in order to secure a second term for Trump:<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia is aiding President Trump in the 2020 election, intelligence officials told lawmakers. Trump complained Democrats might exploit the news.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ej8lO5LJ9d\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ej8lO5LJ9d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1230612487608905729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5>And you would think that we are in a new Cold War with the Western media taking every opportunity to defame and denigrate Russia.<\/h5>\n<h5>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8120505\/Russia-blames-BRITAIN-coronavirus-outbreak.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Daily Mail<\/span><\/a> also claims that Russia is blaming Britain for Coronavirus.<\/h5>\n<h5>According to the Mail:<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cKremlin-backed media has broadcast propaganda which states Covid-19, the new form of coronavirus, was created as a tool for the benefit of the UK\u201d.<\/h5>\n<h5>However, the giveaway comes when the Mail acknowledges that the information it uses was \u201ccollated by EUvsDisinfo, a project of the European External Action Service (EEAS), which is funded by the European Union\u201d.<\/h5>\n<h5>In other words both the Times\u2019 and the Mail\u2019s reports are based on information from a European Union sponsored propaganda outfit.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">EXCLUSIVE: Russian media blames BRITAIN for the coronavirus outbreak: Propaganda accuses UK of &#8216;smearing something in Wuhan&#8217; and links the virus to Salisbury novichok attack<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">EXCLUSIVE Kremlin-backed media has broadcast propaganda blaming UK<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Outrageous slurs include that the\u00a0British &#8216;smeared something in Wuhan&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Pieces of disinformation\u00a0were broadcast by Kremlin-funded Sputnik &amp; Russia 1<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-8076109\/Coronavirus-dangerous-symptoms-likely-appear-risk-death.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coronavirus symptoms<\/span><\/a>: what are they and should you see a doctor?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sian Boyle \u2013 Daily Mail March 17, 2020<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Russian state media has blamed Britain for the global <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coronavirus<\/span><\/strong><\/a> pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Kremlin-backed media has broadcast propaganda which states Covid-19, the new form of coronavirus, was created as a tool for the benefit of the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As Britain continues to fight the pandemic rapidly gripping the world, outrageous slurs in Russian media include that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The British &#8216;smeared something in Wuhan&#8217; in the same way that they &#8216;smear[ed] nerve agent on Skripal&#8217;s door handle&#8217;;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The pandemic was intentionally timed with Britain&#8217;s exit from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/european-union\/index.html\"><strong>EU<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>to enhance its global status;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Porton Down, the Salisbury laboratory at the centre of the Skripal Novichok scandal, &#8216;patented a vaccine&#8217; for Covid-19;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;There is a special operation ongoing&#8217; related to the virus whose &#8216;players are the British-American Alliance&#8217;;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Covid-19 was accidentally created as a bioweapon in 2015 at the Pirbright Institute in Woking;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Coronavirus is an attempt to gain access to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chinese<\/span><\/strong><\/a> markets, because &#8216;Churchill\u2026said England doesn&#8217;t have friends or enemies\u2026 only business interests&#8217;.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last night Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, commented on the Mail&#8217;s findings and said: &#8216;We take disinformation extremely seriously and have brought together cross-government capabilities to give the most comprehensive picture possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;People must have access to the correct information and we are working with tech firms to [\u2026] make sure the most reliable sources are promoted online.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Britain was first targeted with Russian coronavirus propaganda at the end of January, two days before the first official case was confirmed in this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The five pieces of disinformation analysed by the Mail were collated by EUvsDisinfo, a project of the European External Action Service (EEAS), which is funded by the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8120505\/Russia-blames-BRITAIN-coronavirus-outbreak.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new weapon has emerged in the propaganda war between the Kremlin and the West  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,105,22,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-coronavirus","category-Health","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204070"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204079,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204070\/revisions\/204079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}