The main behind the scenes of the spread of false information and conspiracy to confuse the world is Russia's President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times (NYT) reported on the 13th (local time).

Based on the results of expert interviews and analysis of papers, articles, Russian documents, Twitter, TV programs, etc., Russian President Putin has been eager to spread false information in the past 10 years to undermine the credibility of the United States and other countries and to create internal divisions. Claimed to have been uploaded.

According to the NYT, the false information war led by President Putin began in the AIDS caused by the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV), and in 2009 H1N1 'Swine Flu' pandemic (a pandemic), in 2014 Ebola swept Africa and Corona 19.

From 1975 to 1991, Putin served in the National Security Council (KGB), an old Soviet intelligence agency.

It is not known exactly what he did, but it is presumed to have devised and implemented a plan for disseminating false information mainly in charge of foreign information.

One of the things KGB did while he was in KGB was to spread the conspiracy theory that the US military developed AIDS to kill blacks.

By 1987, this false information was translated and spread from 80 countries around the world to 25 languages.

Russia's state-run broadcast RT (Russia Today) is mentioned as the medium most actively used by President Putin to spread false information.

The US intelligence agency estimates that the average number of views per day for RT accounts posted on YouTube is one million.

RT was founded in Moscow under the name 'Russia Today' in 2005, but in 2008 it changed its name and erased Russian colors.

When it started picking up in 2005, it is said that the total number of views produced by RT is close to 4 billion.

RT frequently acted as a window for expanding and reproducing the claim by the frequent appearance of US investigative journalist Wayne Madison, who advocated conspiracy theories that the virus was bioengineered when H1N1 swept the world in 2009.

When Ebola emerged in Africa in 2014, we did not miss the opportunity.

RT broadcasted that the US military had spread Ebola to make Africans into guinea pigs for biological experiments, and in response, Twitter claimed that it was "made by the government" and "biochemical weapons" from Russia.

The NYT has identified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the main target of Russia.

At the end of 2014, a fake news spread in Liberia that a patient with Ebola went to Atlanta, USA, and that regional infections began, but in the process, images that seemed to involve CDC have been widely distributed.

CDC and other prominent scientists have found that there is no link between vaccine and autism in various papers, but among the false information that is spread online from Russia, it is said that CDC knows that the probability of getting autism increases, and CDC is ignoring it. There is also.

Indeed, as such fake news prevails, vaccination rates among American children have decreased and measles infections have increased.

Last year, 1,282 new cases of measles were reported in the United States, the highest number in recent years.

Peter Pomeranchev, author of the Kremlin's False Information book, "Nothing is Truth and Everything Is Possible," said the spread of false information by Russian authorities was "to cultivate the perception that US government agencies are unreliable." .

In fact, a British poll reported that one-third of Americans believe the conspiracy theory that Corona19 was not naturally occurring, but artificially made in the laboratory, said the British Daily Guardian.

According to a survey conducted by the US public opinion poll research agency Fury Research Center on 8,914 American adults, 43% thought that Corona19 was naturally occurring, but 29% said they believed it was `` made in a laboratory. ''

Even 1% of respondents believe that Corona 19 doesn't exist.

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