China launches propaganda war against US online

[BillMasen]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...-instagram-undeclared-coronavirus-propaganda/

China floods Facebook with undeclared coronavirus propaganda ads blaming Trump

Chinese state media is flooding Facebook and Instagram with undisclosed political adverts whitewashing its role in the coronavirus pandemic and pinning blame on Donald Trump.

Three official news outlets – Xinhua, China Central Television and the Global Times – have targeted users across the world with promoted stories in English, Chinese and Arabic.

The ads, seen millions of times, extolled China’s efforts against Covid-19, downplayed its domestic outbreak, depicted Mr Trump as misguided and racist, and suggested that the virus might have originated in the US.

Yet all of them initially ran without a political disclaimer, allowing them to hide information about who they were targeting and sometimes letting them sidestep Facebook’s strict rules on political advertising.

It comes as the company struggles with severe temporary cutbacks in its content moderation staff, many of whom have been sent home on full pay to avoid infection.

“[China] has taken stringent and forceful measures, and turned the tide on coronavirus,” said one ad. “Trump’s disruption to China has severe consequences,” warned another.

Several focused on Mr Trump's insistence on using the term "Chinese virus", which has also been criticised by many Americans, while others highlighted uplifting statements by China's president, Xi Jinping. One trumpeted the potential role of traditional Chinese medicine.

 

[lonewolf]

communists! what did you expect?

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...-instagram-undeclared-coronavirus-propaganda/

Several focused on Mr Trump's insistence on using the term "Chinese virus", which has also been criticised by many Americans, while others highlighted uplifting statements by China's president, Xi Jinping. One trumpeted the potential role of traditional Chinese medicine.

The Chinese have brainwashed their people for ages now. They are trying it on the rest of the world. The Dems here are siding with them against their own country and Citizenry. Is there anything that isn’t tagged with racist these days? If I order Chinese food will I get called racist? LOL

Here are 17 other diseases named after populations or places:

• West Nile Virus

Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.

• Guinea Worm

Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.

• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.

• Lyme Disease

Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.

• Ross River Fever

Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.

• Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever

Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.

• Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.

• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.

• Valley Fever

Valley Fever earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California, though its first case came from Argentina.

• Marburg Virus Disease

Named after Marburg, Germany in 1967.

• Norovirus

Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.

• Zika Fever

First discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda.

• Japanese Encephalitis

Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.

• German Measles

Named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”

• Spanish Flu

While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers.

• Lassa Fever

Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.

• Legionnaire’s Disease

Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.

 

[Proud Prepper]

To hell with China! They are the world's enemy. Boycott Chinese products.

 

[Brent S]

Hey, China just sent 1000 ventilators to the US. I’m greatful for it. As they say don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. As far as is China perfect? Definitely not, but neither are we.. when it comes down to it everyone is out for their own best interests.

 

[DrHenley]

You really want to make a moral equivalence between the US and Communist China Brent???

 

[Helen Back]

Maybe we should bring manufacturing back to the US. Crazy talk, I know.

 

[Mountain trapper]

F$@k China. If anyone believes anything from the Chinks then they're just a damnd fool.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

Hey, China just sent 1000 ventilators to the US. I’m greatful for it. As they say don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. As far as is China perfect? Definitely not, but neither are we.. when it comes down to it everyone is out for their own best interests.

They did SPREAD the virus to the world...and LIED about it...therefore not giving anyone a chance to prepare. They then didn’t allow our CDC access...and sent BAD DATA, which caused our first round of tests to be wrong.

They owe countries far more than a few ventilators!

 

[DrHenley]

Class action lawsuit against China:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/class-action-suit-against-china-coronavirus
Americans in class-action suit against China speak out on how coronavirus has upended their lives

 

[Brent S]

You really want to make a moral equivalence between the US and Communist China Brent???

I just think the US always needs an enemy and am tired of it. Every government has done bad things. Face it people are rotten to each other. I don’t think Russia or China are perfect, just tired of always thinking we are morally superior.

 

[Brent S]

Maybe we should bring manufacturing back to the US. Crazy talk, I know.

That’s a darned good idea anyways you look at it.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

I just think the US always needs an enemy and am tired of it. Every government has done bad things. Face it people are rotten to each other. I don’t think Russia or China are perfect, just tired of always thinking we are morally superior.

We aren’t talking about any issue except the coronavirus. We aren’t saying the US is always morally superior or right. This is about now. YES on this issue we are morally superior to China!!! As is every other nation I can think of.

Why do you refuse to make them accept their responsibility in this GLOBAL DEATH of thousands? You don’t have to answer, but I am curious how that could possibly be. Do you ever expect anyone or government to be responsible for things they have done?

 

[Proud Prepper]

I just think the US always needs an enemy and am tired of it. Every government has done bad things. Face it people are rotten to each other. I don’t think Russia or China are perfect, just tired of always thinking we are morally superior.

Your so much of an appeaser and partisan for the Democrats and every enemy of the constitution and liberty, all the while claiming your not.

 

[Brent S]

We aren’t talking about any issue except the coronavirus. We aren’t saying the US is always morally superior or right. This is about now. YES on this issue we are morally superior to China!!! As is every other nation I can think of.

Why do you refuse to make them accept their responsibility in this GLOBAL DEATH of thousands? You don’t have to answer, but I am curious how that could possibly be. Do you ever expect anyone or government to be responsible for things they have done?

I’m not saying China didn’t underestimate the seriousness of this virus or make mistakes with it. We did too. We had two months to start preparing and basically did nothing. Even now our president lies about how there are plenty of PPE and respirators and how unproven drugs are going to save us all. I am sure every country around the world will be able to look back afterwards and see all the things done wrong. I just don’t think it’s all China’s fault and I think that working together vs blaming and making others out to be the bad guy is productive.

 

[Brent S]

Your so much of an appeaser and partisan for the Democrats and every enemy of the constitution and liberty, all the while claiming your not.

This isn’t about party views or affiliations but purely an observation that makes sense to me. By working Together and helping each other everyone wins.

 

[DrHenley]

China pulled the wool over most of the world's eyes and blinded them to what was coming. Except Taiwan, they knew better and TRIED to warn the WHO. But the WHO would not even talk to them.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

I’m not saying China didn’t underestimate the seriousness of this virus or make mistakes with it. We did too. We had two months to start preparing and basically did nothing. Even now our president lies about how there are plenty of PPE and respirators and how unproven drugs are going to save us all. I am sure every country around the world will be able to look back afterwards and see all the things done wrong. I just don’t think it’s all China’s fault and I think that working together vs blaming and making others out to be the bad guy is productive.

Thanks for explaining your thinking. Don’t be naive. China didn’t underestimate the virus. They out and out lied many times...as did WHO.

It’s funny you blame the President for not doing enough soon enough when piglosi started the impeachment on the VERY DAY that the virus came to our shores...without China warning anyone that there was a virus killing people. There was not even ONE charge that was proven. NONE. Charges distracted the President and everyone else at a most critical time for our country. Even now with our President and so many other Americans working their ***** off, piglosi isn’t working toward helping with this pandemic...she’s playing politics! Again, to the detriment of AMERICANS.

When the President acted the last of January to stop people who possibly had the virus from coming here, every Dem called him a racist and demanded he open the borders back up! Now dementia joe agrees, but back then called him names like the rest.

How can you say Hydroxychloroquine isn’t saving lives? It has already done it many, many times. Not only in our country, but other countries as well. The President isn’t lying. The media changes and edits. The news you watch is lying. President Trump did follow China and WHO advice for too long in the beginning when he said it would not be more serious than the current flu (which is estimated to hit as high as 63,000) and that it did not spread easily. That was the information dear China and their buddies WHO were giving out!

This country is a Republic. The President is not a ruler and certainly not in charge of everything. Governors of each state are...and mayors work with their Governor.

BTW, the mask shortage happened because the lowlife in office at the time didn’t replenish them when he used them in 2009-2010. And NY had a chance and the money to buy the ADVISED 16,000 Ventilators some years ago. They didn’t bother doing it. Wasted the funds on something else. Now it’s the President’s fault? Pfft.

Why would we work together with a government who has already cost us trillions and thousands of lives with their lies and omissions? Tell me you would work with someone a second time after they caused your business much harm. You wouldn’t.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

This isn’t about party views or affiliations but purely an observation that makes sense to me. By working Together and helping each other everyone wins.

Not when the one you are working with is screwing you and giving you information that is causing people to DIE! Why don’t you tell the Dems they should work with our President instead of always working against him?

 

[Proud Prepper]

Not when the one you are working with is screwing you and giving you information that is causing people to DIE! Why don’t you tell the Dems they should work with our President instead of always working against him?

The answer is obvious.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Thanks for explaining your thinking. Don’t be naive. China didn’t underestimate the virus. They out and out lied many times...as did WHO.

It’s funny you blame the President for not doing enough soon enough when piglosi started the impeachment on the VERY DAY that the virus came to our shores...without China warning anyone that there was a virus killing people. There was not even ONE charge that was proven. NONE. Charges distracted the President and everyone else at a most critical time for our country. Even now with our President and so many other Americans working their ***** off, piglosi isn’t working toward helping with this pandemic...she’s playing politics! Again, to the detriment of AMERICANS.

When the President acted the last of January to stop people who possibly had the virus from coming here, every Dem called him a racist and demanded he open the borders back up! Now dementia joe agrees, but back then called him names like the rest.

How can you say Hydroxychloroquine isn’t saving lives? It has already done it many, many times. Not only in our country, but other countries as well. The President isn’t lying. The media changes and edits. The news you watch is lying. President Trump did follow China and WHO advice for too long in the beginning when he said it would not be more serious than the current flu (which is estimated to hit as high as 63,000) and that it did not spread easily. That was the information dear China and their buddies WHO were giving out!

This country is a Republic. The President is not a ruler and certainly not in charge of everything. Governors of each state are...and mayors work with their Governor.

BTW, the mask shortage happened because the lowlife in office at the time didn’t replenish them when he used them in 2009-2010. And NY had a chance and the money to buy the ADVISED 16,000 Ventilators some years ago. They didn’t bother doing it. Wasted the funds on something else. Now it’s the President’s fault? Pfft.

Why would we work together with a government who has already cost us trillions and thousands of lives with their lies and omissions? Tell me you would work with someone a second time after they caused your business much harm. You wouldn’t.

You nailed it. I think its beyond naive.

 

[BillMasen]

Brent is right on one thing mates, its an almost uniquely American thing to constantly look fot another country to hate in an almost maniacle way. You chaps always need a boogie man to target your ire on. I could easily point out the skeletons in British and American cupboards ( Empire, Concentration camps, Imperialism, Gitmo, Agent Orange, Slavery, Nam, Hiroshimas etc etc ad infinitum) but at the end of the day its not going to help us get through this pandemic. Non of us are perfect , not even close. Yup China screwed the pooch but hate mongering isnt going to help.

Georgia said
"Thanks for explaining your thinking. Don’t be naive. China didn’t underestimate the virus. They out and out lied many times...as did WHO."

Course they did Georgia as ALL countries do Including the US and UK on many issues, Agent Organge, 3 mile island, Windscale leaks, Colonel Oliver North, UK foot & Mouth scandal, UK Salmonella scandal, US and UK lied over Thalidomide , Gitmo etc If we expect MORALITY from any government its we who are being naeve.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

Brent is right on one thing mates, its an almost uniquely American thing to constantly look fot another country to hate in an almost maniacle way. You chaps always need a boogie man to target your ire on. I could easily point out the skeletons in British and American cupboards ( Empire, Concentration camps, Imperialism, Gitmo, Agent Orange, Slavery, Nam, Hiroshimas etc etc ad infinitum) but at the end of the day its not going to help us get through this pandemic. Non of us are perfect , not even close. Yup China screwed the pooch but hate mongering isnt going to help.

Georgia said
"Thanks for explaining your thinking. Don’t be naive. China didn’t underestimate the virus. They out and out lied many times...as did WHO."

Course they did Georgia as ALL countries do Including the US and UK on many issues, Agent Organge, 3 mile island, Windscale leaks, Colonel Oliver North, UK foot & Mouth scandal, UK Salmonella scandal, US and UK lied over Thalidomide , Gitmo etc If we expect MORALITY from any government its we who are being naeve.

Can you site for me Bill a nation that spread a killer virus worldwide and lied about it at every turn? It certainly has not been in my lifetime. Do you actually not blame China for the incomprehensible actions they have taken against the world?

Beyond the deaths, many nations are going to struggle and most likely crash. Many innocent people are going to starve. This is the BIGGEST tragedy the world has faced since WWII. How can you take it so lightly and act as if China did nothing to cause it??

 

[BillMasen]

Can you site for me Bill a nation that spread a killer virus worldwide and lied about it at every turn? It certainly has not been in my lifetime. Do you actually not blame China for the incomprehensible actions they have taken against the world?

Beyond the deaths, many nations are going to struggle and most likely crash. Many innocent people are going to starve. This is the BIGGEST tragedy the world has faced since WWII. How can you take it so lightly and act as if China did nothing to cause it??

There is ZERO evidence to say it was a deliberate act Georgia, if and when we get it then we can deal with it, Why WOULD China do this deliberately knowing full well it would be tracked back to them. No one is taking this lightly but many are reacting hysterically. I do remember both America / UK and Russia creating HUGE stocks of germ warfare. I remember rerading of the US Tuskagee experiments https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study . I do remember the US spraying San Francisco with a supposedly inert bacteria that did kuill people. Can you provide me with SOLID evidence ? not yet but in time the truth will come out. Preppers need to focus on solid facts in order to best prepare, mass hysteria like McCarthyism has no place in prepping.

I think the outbreak was either NATURAL or ACCIDENTAL release by the Chinese, its the COVER UP and LIEs that followed that are unforgivable. HOWEVER if it was a DELIBERATE attack I would have expected the Chinese to have launched in in the US or EU or Russia or Japan by releasing the pathogen there and easily avoiding the blame.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

There is ZERO evidence to say it was a deliberate act Georgia, if and when we get it then we can deal with it, Why WOULD China do this deliberately knowing full well it would be tracked back to them. No one is taking this lightly but many are reacting hysterically. I do remember both America / UK and Russia creating HUGE stocks of germ warfare. I remember rerading of the US Tuskagee experiments https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study . I do remember the US spraying San Francisco with a supposedly inert bacteria that did kuill people. Can you provide me with SOLID evidence ? not yet but in time the truth will come out. Preppers need to focus on solid facts in order to best prepare, mass hysteria like McCarthyism has no place in prepping.

I think the outbreak was either NATURAL or ACCIDENTAL release by the Chinese, its the COVER UP and LIEs that followed that are unforgivable. HOWEVER if it was a DELIBERATE attack I would have expected the Chinese to have launched in in the US or EU or Russia or Japan by releasing the pathogen there and easily avoiding the blame.

I have not YET accused them of doing it deliberately. You just sited what I was trying to say. They covered it up with lie after lie, killing thousands of unsuspecting innocent people. They KNEW it was spreading, but said nothing. The affects on many nation’s economies is going to be HUGE! These are FACTS.

 

[BillMasen]

I wish to add that if this was a Deliberate release of Corona virus across the world and the US / UK /NATO had evidence to support it , then China would have carried out an act of WAR. Do you think Boris or Donald would sit back and do nothing if China launched Bio Warfare ? Do you think We in the west would still be buying BILLIONS of pounds of Chinese made goods if they were attacking us? No of course not if China had attacked us we would retaliate by destroying the Chinese economy by stopping all trade, it would have more effect than using military might.

I have not YET accused them of doing it deliberately. You just sited what I was trying to say. They covered it up with lie after lie, killing thousands of unsuspecting innocent people. They KNEW it was spreading, but said nothing. The affects on many nation’s economies is going to be HUGE! These are FACTS.

Yes China obscenely underplayed the risks and spreads of Corona, it exactly what ALL governments do. Primados, Thalidomide, HIV transmission , the US selling tainted blood for transfusions to the UK, The UK covering up and lying about the risks of salmonella, its what they ALL do. BUT none of this affects PREPPING thats what we must focus on if we are to survive. Wanna fight back in a positive manner, then do what Artic Dude says and make sure you do not buy anything Made in China or its satelite states. Let the non prepping herds of sheeple do the mass hysteria we have better things to do.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

I wish to add that if this was a Deliberate release of Corona virus across the world and the US / UK /NATO had evidence to support it , then China would have carried out an act of WAR. Do you think Boris or Donald would sit back and do nothing if China launched Bio Warfare ? Do you think We in the west would still be buying BILLIONS of pounds of Chinese made goods if they were attacking us? No of course not if China had attacked us we would retaliate by destroying the Chinese economy by stopping all trade, it would have more effect than using military might.




Yes China obscenely underplayed the risks and spreads of Corona, it exactly what ALL governments do. Primados, Thalidomide, HIV transmission , the US selling tainted blood for transfusions to the UK, The UK covering up and lying about the risks of salmonella, its what they ALL do. BUT none of this affects PREPPING thats what we must focus on if we are to survive. Wanna fight back in a positive manner, then do what Artic Dude says and make sure you do not buy anything Made in China or its satelite states. Let the non prepping herds of sheeple do the mass hysteria we have better things to do.

We don’t agree on this one Bill. I see it as far different than anything you’ve named. We didn’t spread HIV. Never heard about the tainted blood. What organization was that? Salmonella is everywhere. It’s never crashed the world.

Primodos was a bad drug that got through the cracks. Nothing more. Ditto for thalidomide. These were 1950s drugs that caused governments to put a tighter rein on pharmaceutical companies.

 

[BillMasen]

We don’t agree on this one Bill. I see it as far different than anything you’ve named. We didn’t spread HIV. Never heard about the tainted blood. What organization was that? Salmonella is everywhere. It’s never crashed the world.

Primodos was a bad drug that got through the cracks. Nothing more. Ditto for thalidomide. These were 1950s drugs that caused governments to put a tighter rein on pharmaceutical companies.

Ah your missing my point Georgia I apologise for not being clear, HIV the US and UK governments tried to cover up its spread from the gay community to the other sections of society when gays donated blood ( for money in the US I believe, UK does not pay donators) passing HIV to the mainstream community in the US. Next was the UK was buying blood products from the US contaminated with HIV and Hep B BOTH countries tried to cover up the scandal. Primados was being used the Germany to abort babies but in the UK they covered it up. Thalidomide both in the US and UK caused thousands of severe birth deformities ( including in my brother) and BOTH government tried for years to cover it up and that went as far as the 1970s.

Its the COVER UPS I'm refering to Georgia sorry for misleading you, just like how they tried to cover up Three Mile Island, The Windscale leak ( Radiation leaking into the Irish sea causing cancer in Ireland) , the US losing Atom bombs off the coast of Spain , the cover up of the after effects of Agent Orange on Vietname civilians for decades. Lies, Half truths, Scandals, failures and COVER UPS.

 

[BillMasen]

And I can tell you what will happen sooner or later the US/ UK and the west will rant and rave, probably apply sanctions, make loads of noise then quietly go back to normal of buying billions of buck of Chinese made products, Then in time the US will start seeing someone else as the bad guy. After all in my lifetime we have seen Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Serbia, Russia, Vietnam and Korea all being blamed for just about everything. Now we buy diesel and natural gas from Russia, Grain from the Ukraine, Shoes from Vietnam, EVERYTHING from china, Winter fruit and veg from Mexico and Columbia, Cars and Trucks from Mexico, Coffee, Cotton, Chemicals etc etc. China has really screwed up but nothing much will change. Sad but true.

 

[DrHenley]

Never thought I'd see you carrying water for the Communists, Bill.