Disinformation

2020-07-12T19:30:02+00:00

Regional News • World

Angela Merkel criticizes world leaders that promote "lies and disinformation"

U.S. President Donald J. Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel **Credit:** The White House (Public Domain)

The German chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative party CDU has stated that the limits of "fact-denying populism" by world leaders have been exposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Merkel added that these leaders promote "lies and disinformation" and said that "We are seeing at the moment that the pandemic can't be fought with lies and disinformation, and neither can it be with hatred and agitation".

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