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Desinformation och dödliga sjukdomar

Torkelsson, Sven Ola LU (2021) UNDK02 20211
Department of Political Science
Abstract (Swedish)
In December 2019, news came from China about a mysterious virus that infected people in the Chinese city of Wuhan. During the following weeks the disease spread further to a number of countries all over the world (DW 2019). The new disease turns out to be very dangerous and highly contagious. While the pandemic spread and people died disinformation started to spread in the media, social media, and in the general discourse (Bandera et al 2021: 5). The emergence and spread of the Covid-19 virus gave Russia an opportunity to exploit the deadly disease for disinformation. A similar disinformation operation was carried out by the Soviet Union in connection with the AIDS disease in the 1980s (Boghardt 2009: 4). I have chosen to study these two... (More)
In December 2019, news came from China about a mysterious virus that infected people in the Chinese city of Wuhan. During the following weeks the disease spread further to a number of countries all over the world (DW 2019). The new disease turns out to be very dangerous and highly contagious. While the pandemic spread and people died disinformation started to spread in the media, social media, and in the general discourse (Bandera et al 2021: 5). The emergence and spread of the Covid-19 virus gave Russia an opportunity to exploit the deadly disease for disinformation. A similar disinformation operation was carried out by the Soviet Union in connection with the AIDS disease in the 1980s (Boghardt 2009: 4). I have chosen to study these two cases of deadly diseases and how they have been used for disinformation by the Soviet Union and Russia, respectively. I have examined the similarities and differences in the use of disinformation in the two cases against the background of the Soviet deception strategy maskirovka. The result shows that you can trace some features from maskirovka to the AIDS and Covid-19 disinformation operations. (Less)
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author
Torkelsson, Sven Ola LU
supervisor
organization
course
UNDK02 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Disinformation, Russia, Soviet Union, Covid-19, AIDS
language
Swedish
id
9041874
date added to LUP
2021-05-12 12:28:30
date last changed
2021-05-12 12:28:30
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  abstract     = {{In December 2019, news came from China about a mysterious virus that infected people in the Chinese city of Wuhan. During the following weeks the disease spread further to a number of countries all over the world (DW 2019). The new disease turns out to be very dangerous and highly contagious. While the pandemic spread and people died disinformation started to spread in the media, social media, and in the general discourse (Bandera et al 2021: 5). The emergence and spread of the Covid-19 virus gave Russia an opportunity to exploit the deadly disease for disinformation. A similar disinformation operation was carried out by the Soviet Union in connection with the AIDS disease in the 1980s (Boghardt 2009: 4). I have chosen to study these two cases of deadly diseases and how they have been used for disinformation by the Soviet Union and Russia, respectively. I have examined the similarities and differences in the use of disinformation in the two cases against the background of the Soviet deception strategy maskirovka. The result shows that you can trace some features from maskirovka to the AIDS and Covid-19 disinformation operations.}},
  author       = {{Torkelsson, Sven Ola}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Desinformation och dödliga sjukdomar}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}