Disinformation Campaigns from the 1980s: Ethnic Weapons, Organ Harvesting, And Child Trafficking

This report covers disinformation campaigns from the 1980s, including claims about ethnic weapons and child trafficking by the United States.

This report covers disinformation campaigns from the 1980s, including claims about ethnic weapons and child trafficking by the United States. False claims about depopulation schemes, polio vaccines and HIV, ethnic weapons, and trafficking of children remain popular through to the present.

Initially presented by the Active Measures Working Group, this content provides an ideal resource for helping the public develop cognitive immunity and resistance to future mis- and disinformation. A table of stories that weren’t a part of any discernible campaign at the time they were documented has been added to the reference section.