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The EU on Tuesday formally accused China and Russia of mounting targeted coronavirus disinformation campaigns to undermine European democracy, in documents seen by AFP. In a paper on what it called the 'flood' of misleading and inaccurate information proliferating around the pandemic, Brussels says Beijing and Moscow had set out to polarise debate and burnish their own images. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, also accuses major online platforms of doing too little to help fact-checkers tackle the 'infodemic' of false healthcare claims, conspiracy theories, fraud and hate speech. 'Foreign actors and certain third countries, in particular Russia and...
