DISINFO: The campaign predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths by COVID-19 is a lie
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: southfront.org (archived)*
  • Date of publication: April 06, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): English
  • Reported in: Issue 191
  • Countries / regions discussed: US
Tags:
coronavirus Conspiracy theory

DISINFO: The campaign predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths by COVID-19 is a lie

SUMMARY

Do not let yourself be misled by the fear campaign, pointing to a Worldwide coronavirus calamity with repeated “predictions” that hundreds of thousands of people are going to die.

These are boldface lies. [—]

The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to trigger the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

This is the true picture of what is happening. “Planet Lockdown” is an encroachment on civil liberties. Entire national economies are in jeopardy. In some countries martial law has been declared.

RESPONSE

An unfounded conspiracy theory, sharing a recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative about "secret elites" controlling world leaders. The number of people, sick with COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million; more than 60.000 people have died (5 April). See latest situation report from the WHO here. See more examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation about coronavirus here.

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