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| China Manipulating Google, Bing Search Results To Advance Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories |
| 2021-10-07 |
| [ZeroHedge] China has been taking advantage of a 'data void' in order to flood social media platforms with Chinese-backed conspiracy theories regarding the origins of Covid-19, which in turn affects algorithmic results from popular search engines such as Google and Bing, according to the Washington Post, citing a Tuesday report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). "data void" created by American news and social media companies suppressing Covid's Chinese origins. The Chinese posts have almost exclusively focused on a theory that Covid-19 was created in a lab at Fort Detrick, home to the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) - which will ring a bell for anyone who read The Hot Zone, and was then purposefully spread throughout Wuhan, China during the October 2019 Military World Games. By saturating social media platforms with this theory, it now crops up when people search for other things via popular search engines. What’s particularly noteworthy about the campaign, researchers said, is that the officials have tapped into a highly effective means for spreading misinformation and disinformation: filling the Internet with misleading content on issues where there’s a dearth of reliable information. The result is that when users search for these more obscure topics — when they type "Fort Detrick" into Google or Bing — they are more likely to see Chinese-backed conspiracy theories. "It gives an advantage to those who are trying to promote this conspiracy because they continue to publish on it over and over and over and over, so that when someone who's not familiar with the term just Googles it ... you tend to get the conspiracy theorist’s point of view," said Bret Schafer, a media and digital disinformation fellow at ASD who co-authored the report. |
| Posted by:Unereper Whinesh6702 |
| #2 I'm sure they also manipulate the anti-vaxxer hysteria. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 17:56 |
| #1 When you don't tell the truth yourself you give an opening to the enemy to use half-truths. Your dishonesty is not very protective. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-10-07 12:56 |