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Andry Rajoelina
President of Madagascar
"Covid-Organics, improved traditional remedy based on artemisia & endemic plants, curative & preventive against #Covid19, is launched!”
Read more...President Rajoelina insists COVID-Organics works despite zero scientific proof. In July, cases spiked as high as 600 a day in Madagascar. -
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Olga Skabeyeva
Russian state TV news presenter
“Truly he died, tragically. And the main stupidity is that this Belarusian tried to throw an explosive device at the OMON (riot police), and this very explosive device detonated right in his hand. That is, he accidentally killed himself.”
Read more...Video of the incident shows the protester’s hands were empty. No detonation was visible. -
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Global Times
Chinese Communist Party newspaper
“Hong Kong affairs have nothing to do with freedom of the press … [Lai] and his ilk want to be US pawns in Hong Kong ... They are special allies of the US.”
Read more...Despite China’s assertion Lai’s arrest has “nothing to do with” press freedom, overwhelming evidence suggests that the move has everything to do with it. -
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Channel 1, Russia
State-owned TV network
“Donald Trump already reacted in his usual manner, calling her even more disgusting [“omerzitel’noi”] than the previous candidate for the position, Elizabeth Warren, who he degradingly called Pocahontas.”
Read more...In Russia, media and politicians reacted to Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate with racial and sexist slurs and disinformation. -
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@Russia
Russian government-linked Twitter account
"Russia registers world's first #COVID19 #vaccine. It is based on adenovirus & contains dead #coronavirus particles which cannot multiply and are therefore #safe. It has successfully passed all clinical trials stages. Ready or not #COVID19, here comes the vaccine!"
Read more...The Russian Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 hasn’t completed all appropriate testing. Big questions remain about its effectiveness and safety. -
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Nicolás Maduro
Venezuelan president
“It is a clear triumph that expresses the loyalty of the Belarusian people to their national sovereignty to guarantee their integral development, prosperity, and maintenance of peace and security.”
Read more...Maduro’s statement overlooks the fact that Lukashenko won after jailing opponents and suppressing opposition protests. Unrest continues in Belarus. -
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Bolivian Chamber of Deputies
“Citizens, and residents of the Bolivian territory, may use the Chlorine Dioxide Solution, as an alternative means, to prevent or treat the infection and the consequences caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19)."
Read more...There is no scientific evidence showing chloride dioxide helps cure COVID-19. Drinking it can kill. -
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Aleksandr Lukashenko
President of Belarus
“We have never denied that coronavirus existed. This is the way mass media has presented it. How can we deny what is really here?”
Read more...Lukashenko downplayed the risks of COVID-19 multiple times in the run-up to his rigged re-election victory Sunday. -
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Hu Xijin
Editor-in-chief of the Global Times
“Why haven't high-ranking US officials at the level of Azar visited Taiwan in the last 40 years? Because it is an international rule. Azar's visit is a further breach of rules and a geopolitical show.”
Read more...No “international rule” stops any country’s top-ranking official from visiting Taiwan – that includes the United States. -
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Aleksandr Lukashenko
Belarusian president
“All that about Istanbul, Venezuela, Africa, Libya is lies. These people (they have confessed) were sent specifically to Belarus. Their orders were to wait. They had tickets purchased [to fly] to Istanbul but that was their cover story.”
Read more...Lukashenko has offered flimsy evidence for the arrests of Russian mercenaries in an alleged plot to disrupt presidential voting. -
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Veteran's Today
Conspiracy theory site
“Breaking: Israel Nukes Beirut – Two explosions in Beirut, one a conventional guided bomb followed by a small nuclear weapon. The target seems to be an Iranian/Hezbollah missile storage facility. Our evaluation is guesswork and we are waiting for word from our nuclear exper ...”
Read more...Cause of the Beirut blast is under investigation but is believed to be 2,750 metric tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer. There is no evidence of a nuclear detonation. -
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Felipe Neto
Brazilian YouTube producer
“[A] child is like candy, I eat hidden”
Source: Twitter, May 31, 2020Read more...Since criticizing President Jair Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 response, Felipe Neto, creator of a popular children’s show, has been targeted by false pedophilia allegations.
