CHINA, through its foreign ministry, on Sunday claimed that it was the United States that "invented" how to weaponize the global information space. The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the remark in reaction to the US State Department report claiming that China invested billions of dollars to "spread disinformation globally." The report said that China seeks to reshape the global information environment to its advantage. Beijing has "invested billions of dollars to construct a global information ecosystem that promotes its propaganda and facilitates censorship and the spread of disinformation," the same report read. The MoFA said the US was involved in Operation Mockingbird "which bribed and manipulated news media for propaganda purposes in the Cold War era."

Source: Manila Times October 01, 2023 16:44 UTC