Published 3 years ago

China played leading role in spreading Covid-19 conspiracies, investigation finds

Summary by Associated Press News

It took just three months for the rumour that Covid-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people’s minds.

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Yahoo News

Takeaways: AP investigation of China COVID-19 disinformation

As the coronavirus spread last year, former President Donald Trump and leading U.S. conservatives floated the idea that the virus may have escaped from a Chinese lab or was created by China as a bioweapon. China pushed back. A nine-month AP investigation, conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, found China launched what may be its first global digital disinformation campaign, using its growing pres…

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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News18 India

COVID Conspiracy Shows Vast Reach Of Chinese Disinformation

BRUSSELS: It took just three months for the rumor that COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of peoples minds.

3 years ago·India

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CTV News

COVID-19 conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation

Powerful forces, from Beijing and Washington to Moscow and Tehran, have battled to control the narrative about where the virus came from. Leading officials and allied media in all four countries functioned as super-spreaders of disinformation, using their stature to sow doubt and amplify politically expedient conspiracies already in circulation, a nine-month Associated Press investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaborat…

3 years ago·Canada

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The Independent

COVID conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation

An Associated Press investigation, conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, found that powerful political figures and allied media in China, the U.S., Russia and Iran flooded the globe with disinformation about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

COVID conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation

BRUSSELS (AP) — It took just three months for the rumor that COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people’s minds.

3 years ago·United States

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Sydney Morning Herald

Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role

A nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation shows how a rumour that the US created the virus that causes COVID-19 was weaponised by the Chinese government, spreading from the dark corners of the internet to millions across the globe.

3 years ago·Sydney, Australia

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