Russian and Chinese media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western COVID-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European Union report said Wednesday. "A disinformation report that has no factual basis is in itself an example of disinformation," the Chinese mission to the EU said in a statement dated Thursday in response to the report. Last year, China sought to block an EU report alleging that Beijing was spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, according to a Reuters investigation. Russian media reported that "Brexit saved the U.K. from the 'vaccine chaos' engulfing the EU," the EU said. In the report, the EU said Russia's official Sputnik V Twitter account sought to undermine public trust in the European Medicines Agency.

Source: CBC News April 28, 2021 19:18 UTC