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Disinfo: The events at the Capitol were a provocation against Trump

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The deadly incidents at the Capitol on January 6 with demonstrators entering the building were not provoked by supporters of President Trump. It was antifascists and members of the Antifa movement who should be held accountable for what happened. This was a provocation against President Trump.

Disproof

Disinformation about the storming of the US Capitol building, on 6 January, 2020.

It has been well documented both in US media and by official US sources that it was not Antifa supporters who stormed the Capitol building on January 6. On the contrary, hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, battling police in the hallways and delaying the certification of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory for hours. The events at the Capitol were not a provocation against President Trump. This is easily proven by a series of stories in mainstream US media, like here.

See related disinformation claims alleging that a colour revolution took place in the US; the "deep state" lured protesters into the Capitol building; the "Capitol unrest" is very convenient for the deep state.

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Sputnik Greece (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 227
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 11/01/2021
  • Outlet language(s) Greek
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: US
  • Keywords: Republican Party (US), US Presidential Election 2020, Donald Trump
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Bloomberg provides reasons to trust Russian vaccine Sputnik V

Bloomberg journalist Sam Fazeli provides the list of reasons to trust Russian vaccine Sputnik V. These reasons are:

Russia with this vaccine is fifth on the list of vaccine makers with the most doses under contract through pre-purchase agreements;

Sputnik V has been tested in a phase III trial;

Efficacy at each interim analysis in the Sputnik V trial was consistently at 90% or above;

Sputnik V was developed using the kind of advanced vaccine technology employed in shots made by the AstraZeneca-Oxford University.

The journalist made evidence that the Sputnik V vaccine may well be as strong a candidate as the ones created in Western labs. He also stated that he would opt for a ride on Sputnik rather than a trip to CoronaVac’s golden stars.

Jan 10, 2021
Disproof

The claim advances a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative concerning the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V. The message is based on the manipulation and quotes taken out of context.

In the original text Sam Fazeli covered all doubts linked to Sputnik V. He wrote:

The US is a totalitarian state

The United States has always been and still is a totalitarian state. Unlike most countries in the world, it exercises double totalitarianism, that is vertical and horizontal. Suppression of certain behaviour occurs vertically at the level of government, and horizontally at the level of society, which has become an element defining the national culture. For example, you are obligated to trim the lawn in front of your house, and if you do not, your neighbour will be the first to report you to the police, or more precisely, all of your neighbours will do so.

Jan 10, 2021
Disproof

This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative, which seeks to discredit the United States and liberal democracies by claiming that liberal societies are totalitarian systems and that liberal democracies, like 20th-century totalitarian dictatorships, practice repression against the population.

Although the US and other Western democracies today face multiple and serious domestic and foreign threats, it is not true that liberal democracies are obsolete, have collapsed or are being replaced with dictatorships. Reports of the death of liberal democracy have been greatly exaggerated. Moreover, the article’s attempt to equate the West’s liberal societies to totalitarian regimes is an obvious falsification of reality. According to the 2020 World Press Freedom Index, the US is in 45th place out of 180 countries.

Russiagate was a collective hysteria campaign to control American society by shadowy elites

The standard way to control the behaviour of American society is mass hysteria campaigns, as was the case with McCarthyism (anti-communism) in the 1950s, or “Russiagate” in the past four years. Men in the shadows and holders of the levers in the United States are moving the hysteria levers to the extent that the totalitarianism of society automatically turns itself in the desired direction, so society itself becomes the represser of dissidents (dismissing Trump supporters from their jobs, or harassing and blocking them on social media, for example).

Jan 10, 2021
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Russiagate which denies Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and secret power elites.

Robert Mueller's investigation concluded that Russia did interfere in the 2016 election. Mueller’s report maintains that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”. Nevertheless, it states that Russian interference activities did take place.