Recently, some China-linked Twitter accounts have been spreading misinformation about the source of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, in attempts to falsely attribute the origin of the virus to lobsters from Maine. Marcel Schliebs, an Oxford University researcher first noticed the misinformation campaign when the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India, Zha Liyou, posted the claims on Twitter, according to USA Today. Schliebs, who is with the Oxford Internet Institute, studies disinformation, propaganda, and divisive political news content in the online information ecosystem of the UK. He found that this tweet was linked to hundreds of Twitter accounts, some real and some fake, spreading information and misinformation from a pro-CCP bias. The Chinese Consul General Zha said on Twitter on Sept. 19 that the main suspect of the source of the COVID has been identified as cold chain cargo. “Major suspect of covid via cold chain identified: …
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