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October 18, 2020 10:59 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0_WlPymkKis/stupid-russian-disinformation-campaign-targets-oxford-vaccine
Stupid Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Oxford Vaccine
The Times of London reports that "a Russian disinformation campaign designed to undermine and spread fear about the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine has been exposed by a Times investigation."Pictures, memes and video clips depicting the British-made vaccine as dangerous have been devised in Russia and middlemen are now seeking to "seed" the images on social media networks around the world. The crude theme of the distorted images is that the vaccine, millions of doses of which will be manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca, could turn people into monkeys because it uses a chimpanzee virus as a vector.The campaign is being targeted at countries where Russia wants to sell its own Sputnik V vaccine, as well as western nations. CNN points out that this "monkey vaccine" narrative "has been voiced by Russian officials and the state media before."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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