BEST OF THE WEB: Atlantic Council: 'China spread Covid-19 conspiracy theories about man-made virus around the world'

This post was originally published on this site sott.net/news China played leading role in spreading Covid-19 conspiracies, investigation finds "You did it!""No, YOU did it!" 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 the virus had been human-made and possibly weaponised was widespread, multiple surveys indicated. The Pew Research Center found, for example, that one in three Americans believed the new coronavirus had been created in a lab; one in four…