China suggests Maine lobster shipment caused Covid pandemic in latest attempt to blame the United States

A network of Twitter accounts linked to China claimed that Covid-19 was imported into the Wuhan seafood market via a shipment of Maine lobsters from the United States, a disinformation researcher has discovered. The theory is the latest to emerge from Beijing in an attempt to deflect and obscure any investigation into the true origin of the virus. Zha Liyou, the Chinese consul general based in Calcutta, was the first to tweet the claim in mid-September. It was then distributed via Twitter in several languages, including English, Spanish, French, Korean and even Latin. Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher based at…