{"id":19168,"date":"2020-06-10T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/eu-says-china-behind-huge-wave-covid-19-disinformation-campaign"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:16:24","slug":"eu-says-china-behind-huge-wave-of-covid-19-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19168","title":{"rendered":"EU says China behind &#8216;huge wave&#8217; of Covid-19 disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels shifts position by accusing Beijing for first time of running false campaigns<\/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>China has been accused by Brussels of running disinformation campaigns inside the European Union, as the bloc set out a plan to tackle a \u201chuge wave\u201d of false facts about the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The European commission said Russia and China were running \u201ctargeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the EU, its neighbourhood, and globally\u201d. While the charge against Russia has been levelled on many occasions, this is the first time the EU executive has publicly named China as a source of disinformation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/eu-says-china-behind-huge-wave-covid-19-disinformation-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels shifts position by accusing Beijing for first time of running false campaignsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has been accused by Brussels of running disinformation campaigns inside the European Union, as the b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"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":[41,50,1069,236,221,1448,530,238,419,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-digital-media","category-europe","category-european-commission","category-european-union","category-media","category-russia","category-social-media","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\/19168","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\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168\/revisions\/19169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}