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Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines (www.reuters.com)

submitted 3 months ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/worldnews@aussie.zone

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The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

but even when he was unnamed, the Guardian had piles of hard evidence to back up the 2012 Pentagon stories.

I guess to me, the difference between publishing some documents [1][2] or slides [3] as per your example with The Guardian isn't that different (again, for me) as implicitly saying "the source(s) is/are legit" if whoever's publishing the information has a track record of being trustworthy regarding factuality since I can't necessarily verify the authenticity of that evidence anyway.