The US military used fake social media accounts to spread propaganda that was designed to discredit China’s COVID-19 vaccine in the Philippines during the height of the pandemic, according to a bombshell report from. The anti-vax campaign ran from spring 2020 until mid-2021, and was intended to “counter what perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines,” the publication found in its investigation.
said the Pentagon had propaganda accounts on X, Facebook and Instagram, and was warned in late 2020 by Facebook executives that the accounts had been identified and were acting in violation of the platform’s policies. Some of these accounts, however, ultimately weren’t taken down after the Pentagon said it would stop using them for its anti-vax campaign.notified X of at least 300 accounts it found during its investigation that appeared to be part of the operation.