{"id":17505,"date":"2020-04-24T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/coronavirus-sparks-perfect-storm-of-state-led-disinformation"},"modified":"2020-04-24T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:30:45","slug":"malicious-forces-creating-perfect-storm-of-coronavirus-disinformation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17505","title":{"rendered":"Malicious forces creating &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; of coronavirus disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and China among state and other actors spreading fake news and disruption, say experts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coronavirus crisis has sparked a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of global online disinformation, cyber-espionage and disruption, involving up to a dozen states but most prominently Russia and China, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of a pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of people, analysts have witnessed a sharp rise in deliberate misinformation campaigns on social media, which have occurred in parallel with attempts to hack international organisations at the forefront of the coronavirus response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/coronavirus-sparks-perfect-storm-of-state-led-disinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and China among state and other actors spreading fake news and disruption, say expertsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus crisis has sparked a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of global online disinformation, cyber-espiona&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1069,987,415,667,530,1003,351,238,419,235,58,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-cybercrime","category-donald-trump","category-espionage","category-european-union","category-hacking","category-internet","category-media","category-russia","category-social-media","category-technology","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17506,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions\/17506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}