Pentagon: vaccines are haram (Reuters investigation)
This story is so fucking bonkers that it reads like a conspiracy theory:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates...id-propaganda/
Quote:
The U.S. military?s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021, Reuters determined. Tailoring the propaganda campaign to local audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East, the Pentagon used a combination of fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to spread fear of China?s vaccines among Muslims at a time when the virus was killing tens of thousands of people each day. A key part of the strategy: amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China?s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law.
The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden?s presidency, Reuters found ? even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.
Pentagon doesn't dispute the investigation's findings.
Perhaps not as terrible as the fallout from the CIA's fake hepatitis vaccination programme, but still nucking futs.
