Russia behind huge virus disinformation campaign, says US | The Malaysian Insight

US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention employees at their emergency operations centre for the novel coronavirus epidemic in Atlanta, Georgia, recently. Russia is seeking to damage the US' image by seizing on international health concerns by suggesting that it is behind the virus that has claimed more than 2,300 lives. – EPA pic, February 22, 2020.

THOUSANDS of Russian-linked social media accounts have launched a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the new coronavirus, disrupting global efforts to combat the epidemic, US officials told AFP. The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the United States is behind the Covid-19 outbreak, in an apparent bid to damage the US image by seizing on international health concerns, they said.

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