How the CCP Plays Media Games to Deceive the World

The Chinese regime has launched a new wave of disinformation, this time firing back against potential investigations into the origin of the virus by claiming the United States was warned, the CCP held off the virus, and by using hostile statements while also calling for civility. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr published a Twitter thread debunking these new narratives step by step, and similar analysis has been published elsewhere. The developments suggest the Chinese regime’s disinformation narratives are losing steam. And when the pandemic is over, the world may be a very different place, with online schooling and working from home being new norms; and as governments expand systems for social control and surveillance. These stories and more in this episode of Crossroads.