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Beijing was one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation, including claims about bioweapons, an analysis of social media posts finds Investigation also finds that media and officials in Russia, Iran and US – including Donald Trump – also ramped up politically charged claims Beijing was one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation, including claims about bioweapons, an analysis of social media posts finds. 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. By March 2020, belief that...
