Minitrue Plus Five: March 6, 2020 - Ill Iran Repatriates, Masks, COVID Customs Data

Minitrue Plus Five: March 6, 2020 - Ill Iran Repatriates, Masks, COVID Customs Data

In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as…