Facebook users came up with creating an account of the Swiss scientist Wilson Edwards, who for almost a month distributed fakes on coronavirus infection and the United States. In particular, the fictional researcher accused the American authorities in the fact that they are subtolding data on COVID-19 for the accusation of Beijing. This is reported by Business Insider with reference to META.
Statements “scientist” especially actively spread to Facebook and Twitter in the period from July 24 to August 10. He published statements that the United States intimidate his citizens and convince them of the Chinese involvement in the appearance of SARS-COV-2. During this time, Edwards fakes spread through social networks, they were also reprinted by China’s state media.
Facebook blocked the user account only on August 10. This happened after the representatives of the Swiss authorities confirmed: a citizen of the country with this name does not exist. Then it became known that the Akkunt of Edwards was created on the eve of July 24 in 12 hours.
On August 2, members of the Republican Party from the US House of Representatives published a report in which the proof of the leakage of coronavirus from the laboratory in Uhana. Republican report was based on information from open sources. The authors of the document also called on the US Government to impose sanctions against scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.