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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 20:54:59 JST Kevin Beaumont

   Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign on social media

   https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

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     Apologies if you already knew (il_fritz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 21:28:43 JST Apologies if you already knew

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     @GossiTheDog title is click-baity; it wasn't anti-vax as such, it was discrediting a specific Chinese vaccine

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     Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 12:55:13 JST Gabriel Pettier

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     @GossiTheDog ok, this is bad, really, but on the other hand, how are antivax conspiracy theorists going to process that information?

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     astroPug (astropug@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:36:50 JST astroPug

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     @GossiTheDog

     I noticed that the article mentioned researchers at Stanford who also identified some of the psyop accounts. And lo and behold, the embedded link lead to a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory, which Stanford is sadly closing. I know it’s a small side note but it worries me that we are losing such an effective research team amidst what can only become more (both state and non-state sponsored) internet propaganda.

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     🌿Mouse-Friend🌿 (mousefriend@this.mouse.rocks)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:36:55 JST 🌿Mouse-Friend🌿

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     @GossiTheDog the US Empire has a long history of using healthcare and health workers to infiltrate and cause direct harm to targeted communities.
     They pretended to vaccinate for flu in Pakistan, and instead of doing that they instead just stole genetic info to supposedly track bin Laden, despite that not being at all how genetic tracking works.
     You can't tell if somebody is near by based on the genetic information of a person you know is in an area.

     Not to mention Tuskegee, Puerto Rico, etc.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:36:58 JST clacke

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     @mousefriend You can tell if bin Laden is there if you get bin Laden's DNA. I thought that's what they did. Or possibly find a concentration of Arabic people.

     The plan was actually to try to find his descendants from living there a few years?

     @GossiTheDog

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     Pontificator.OMF (pontificator_omf@alien.insurrection.tech)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:37:05 JST Pontificator.OMF

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     @GossiTheDog Oh, this can only go full-bad. Next people will be asking "If they did this, then who else did they do it to?" Next we'll be finding they did such to vaccine producers who were not US controlled.

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     embix (brezelradar@norden.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:37:07 JST embix

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     @GossiTheDog What could possibly go wrong?
     It only strengthened the nutjobs. 😠

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     Timothy Wolodzko (tymwol@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:37:11 JST Timothy Wolodzko

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     @GossiTheDog So basically, anti-vax is a Pentagon's conspiracy to make people believe in a different conspiracy..?

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     Toxy 🔬🇪🇺🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦 (toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:37:16 JST Toxy 🔬🇪🇺🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦

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     @GossiTheDog There will be some conflicted tin-hatters out there right now.

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     Santiago Lema :amiga: (santiago@masto.lema.org)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:37:23 JST Santiago Lema :amiga:

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     @GossiTheDog “ ‘ I’m extremely dismayed, disappointed and disillusioned to hear that the U.S. government would do that,’ said Lucey, a former military physician who assisted in the response to the 2001 anthrax attacks.”

     When I read this , I remember people in the military are often just like people under a guru’s influence in a sect. “Oh no, he would never do that. Sure, the purification room has a gallon of lube but it’s for soul cleaning purpose. The Illuminated understand.”

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     Danny Boling ☮️ (iamdannyboling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:37:26 JST Danny Boling ☮️

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     @GossiTheDog

     jfc. there are no safe places anymore.

     "The U.S. military’s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021, Reuters determined....
     "The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency..."

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     食 Shoku the MN Wolf (themnwolf@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 19:02:27 JST 食 Shoku the MN Wolf

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     @GossiTheDog This is the problem with power. They had a slap fight that got billions of people caught in the middle.

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     Yuri Arabadji (cek@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:44:12 JST Yuri Arabadji

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     We now have 2 narratives factually debunked:

     * Campaign was discrediting the only available vaccine thus leaving populace defenseless

     * Campaign against single vaccine severely affected fatality rate in Philippines

     US mil made a mistake for sure (the existence of the article itself proves that), but

     the data speaks for itself.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:44:12 JST clacke

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     @cek just fucking don't run misinformation campaigns against public health ok
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     Yuri Arabadji (cek@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:44:14 JST Yuri Arabadji

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     I have finally read the article and can say that the headline is absolutely misleading to the point of being absolutely correct. They ran an op to indeed discredit a "vax", but not the broad idea of vaccination -- rather, a specific vaccine coming from a specific country (well, 2 in total to be precise).

     Reuters journalist[s] goes to great lengths in mental gymnastics to connect different narratives [to sensationalize the article] by covering his ass with a scientific research that presumably demonstrates that skepticism towards a single vaccine spills over to broad uncertainty about the whole vax idea.

     The stanza "Chinese vaccines ... less effective than the ..." is mind bending on its own as the actual numbers are 60% inactivated vs ~97% mRNA. Why is writer using word "less" instead of "CATASTROPHICALLY LOWER"? Would've fitted article tone very well.

     Having said that, you really shouldn't pour shit on other vac producers while holding up [or not able to] supply of your own vac.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:44:14 JST clacke

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     • Yuri Arabadji

     @cek No, that's not how this works. There is no surgical precision psy-op. You run a nonfactual campaign against a specific vaccine, you undermine the people's understanding that vaccines work. You run an anti-vaxx campaign in the Philippines, it leaks into the global zeitgeist and definitely contributes to vaccine paranoia on the other side of the planet.

     The Pentagon is a threat to global health.

     Sinovac was 60% effective and mRNA vaccines were 97% effective. That's a fact. The campaign said China is the virus, don't take Sinovac, when Sinovac was the only vaccine available in the region. That's murder.