A disinformation campaign claiming that the Covid-19 virus originated from an American military base in Maryland has gained popularity in China ahead of the release of a US intelligence report on the virus origins.
But now as the report is due to be released, China has gone on the offensive. In the past few weeks, Chinese sources have been amplifying a baseless claim that Covid-19 was made in the US. A rap song by the Chinese nationalist group CD Rev suggesting nefarious plots being hatched by the lab was recently endorsed by Zhao Lijian, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman.
"We see a more sustained campaign involving more numerous and geographically spread accounts to promote the narrative," about Fort Detrick, says Ira Hubert, a senior investigative analyst at social analytics firm Graphika. The newspaper also launched an online petition calling for Chinese netizens to sign an open letter demanding a World Health Organisation investigation into Fort Detrick. People could "sign" the letter with a single click, and the appeal reportedly gathered more than 25 million "signatures".Experts say Beijing is seeking to bring non-Chinese audiences into the dispute about Covid-19 origins to further muddy the waters.
Experts believe "Wilson Edwards" likely does not exist, but is instead a fictitious propaganda profile. His Facebook page was launched on the day that he published the Covid-19 post. A new Twitter account under the name of "Wilson Edwards" also tweeted out the same message on that day.
if not,why they afraid to open fortdetrick ?
LOL...
Would help if China cooperated with the WHO.
Blatant Propaganda. BBC disinfo. Ridiculously see-thru. Laughably puerile. Another futile attempt to demonise China. Hard to know where to start in pointing out just how wrong this is on every level, from every angle. I'll keep it simple. Watch this:
USA exists based in an imaginary enemy. the whole F***** time.
BBC就是政治病毒的散播的载体
America and The World is waiting to see David Louis Whitehead’s film on Aretha Franklin entitled “Aretha “ based on the musical play “My Aretha”!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Almost as if the Chinese have something to hide.
thanks
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