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Facebook says a disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coronavirus.

The company based in Menlo Park, California, did not directly attribute the network to the Chinese government. But it noted employees of Chinese state-run companies, and the country’s state-run media, worked to amplify the misleading claims, which were soon the subject of news headlines in China.

Within a week of the initial post, large media outlets in China were reporting on the claims of U.S. intimidation as if they had been made by a real scientist. In all, Meta removed about 600 accounts on Facebook and Instagram that were linked to the network, Nimmo told reporters on a call Wednesday that touched on the company’s response to several disinformation networks around the world.

 

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But only a sitting US PRESIDENT fell for it

kfdinews

Another reason I am no longer on Facebook

so does this mean people like Pottinger weren't pressuring people to do this and support the lab leak fairy tale?

I know about 5 of em

Really yeah? nah....anti China propaganda

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