It did not, because there are many many threads of disinformation and I wasn't trying to catalog them all. I'm happy to engage a discussion of how to avoid misinformation specifically related to China, but not really clear what point you're trying to make here. I also think it's pretty far down on the list of threats we face right now, but understand others may feel differently about that.

You are talking about disinfomation and Covid19 without mentioning the state-of-the-art player: CCP, you won't get it right. This is an advice from a native Chinese.

I'm not knowledgeable enough about the CCP's disinformation efforts to do the topic justice. But if you'd be willing to write something in the same general spirit as my essay, I would be more than happy to link it.

well, they started off actually going to credible sources, telling them to portrait them positively. i don't know of any proof for comment-style disinformation from them, but considering that its basically impossible to prove that.... i'm not sure someone could write a good article about that. its a sad reality we live in, imo.

its also telling that very few published that attempt. i doubt it was only done to germany... others likely went ahead.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...