U.S. Officials Say Russian Intelligence Agencies Have Mounted An Online Disinformation Campaign To Undermine Confidence In Pfizer And Moderna's COVID Vaccines

Russian disinformation campaigns have targeted Pfizer's vaccine, which competes for market share with Russia's Sputnik V version.


WASHINGTON—Russian intelligence agencies have mounted a campaign to undermine confidence in Pfizer Inc.’s and other Western vaccines, using online publications that in recent months have questioned the vaccines’ development and safety, U.S. officials said. 

An official with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which monitors foreign disinformation efforts, identified four publications that he said have served as fronts for Russian intelligence. 

The websites played up the vaccines’ risk of side effects, questioned their efficacy, and said the U.S. had rushed the Pfizer vaccine through the approval process, among other false or misleading claims. 

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WNU Editor: Russia's intelligence agencies are not doing a very good job at undermining these vaccines. The whole world wants these vaccines, and they want they want them now! 

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