@vortex_egg this read seems up your alley.
COVID conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation
https://apnews.com/article/beijing-media-coronavirus-pandemic-conspiracy-only-on-ap-e696b32d4c3e9962ac0bdbdae2991466
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@vortex_egg When I read it I just kept thinking “how are they gathering, organizing, and analyzing all this data?”
@ryen That was my reaction. That and, this seems to be focused specifically on state propaganada-as-disinformation.
The underlying report this article is based on is from here:
https://medium.com/dfrlab/new-report-traces-the-history-of-conspiracy-theories-claiming-covid-19-is-a-bioweapon-49903924182e
DFRLab is a project of the Atlantic Council in Washington DC. On their careers page they describe themselves as “We’re not a think tank.” (lol).
Apparently I follow them on birdsite but anecdotally I don’t recall seeing any cross talk between them and the usual disinfo journalism/open source investigations/or disinfo academia crowds that I get a lot of my info from (I guess if I were more skilled up already that’s something I could map with actual data, huh).