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December 3, 2021 06:08 pm

Facebook took down a fake Swiss scientist account that was part of an international misinfo campaign




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Buried deep within Facebook’s November report on Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior is a tale of international intrigue that seems more like a Netflix drama than an attempted disinformation campaign (although the way Netflix mines social media for ideas these days, maybe stay tuned). On July 24th, a Swiss biologist named Wilson Edwards claimed on Facebook and Twitter that the US was pressuring World Health Organization (WHO) scientists studying the origins of COVID-19.


His claims spread quickly on social media, as such claims are wont to do, and within a week’s time, the Global Times and People’s Daily, two state-run Chinese media outlets, were denouncing Wilson Edwards’ claims as “intimidation” by the US. Wilson Edwards created his...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/3/22815906/facebook-meta-instagram-fake-swiss-scientist-account-china-misinformation

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