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The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/FKXpw

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

These stupid motherfuckers.

It's immoral, it's anti human, so that's problem number one. And what's worse, they did such a shit job at it that the social media companies identified the accounts quickly, so surely our adversaries could do the same.

And there was this bit in the article: "The senior Defense Department official said that those complaints led to an internal review in late 2021, which uncovered the anti-vaccine operation. The probe also turned up other social and political messaging that was “many, many leagues away” from any acceptable military objective. The official would not elaborate."

So I expect we'll see reports of other shithead operations before long.