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misinformation about the origins of COVID-19, such as lies that the virus came from a shipment of Maine lobsters to Wuhan. Oxford researcher [Marcel Schliebs](javascript:void(0)) first noticed the misinformation campaign when he saw a tweet from [Zha Liyou](javascript:void(0)) , the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India. Schliebs studies disinformation, propaganda and divisive political news content in the U.K. online information ecosystem at the Oxford Internet Institute. He linked the tweet to hundreds of Twitter accounts, some real and some fake, all of them spreading pro-China misinformation. The tweet by Liyou said: “Major suspect of covid via cold chain identified: A...
