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Jan. 29, 2021 / 8:07 AM China offers lessons for debunking COVID-19 misinformation By Kaiping Chen, University of Wisconsin-Madison ( 0 ) Popular conspiracies on Chinese social media about the origins of COVID-19 differ substantially from those in the United States, with many claiming that a national government deliberately constructed the coronavirus. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 have accompanied the pandemic from the beginning. Crucial to managing the pandemic is mitigating the effects of misinformation , which the World Health Organization dubbed an "infodemic." Conspiracy theories and misinformation are global...