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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by boomboomsubban on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:46PM (#22622212)
One under director of the Foreign Affairs office posted it on Twitter, a site blocked in China. By this logic, the US is also telling their own people that the virus is a biological weapon because one senator said it on Fox News.
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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by makomk on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:40PM (#22622688)
"Mr. Zhao’s remarks were spread on China’s most prominent social media platform, Weibo, under a hashtag: #ZhaoLijianPostedFiveTweetsinaRowQuestioningAmerica. By late afternoon on Friday, that hashtag had been viewed more than 160 million times, along with screenshots of the original Twitter posts."
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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by boomboomsubban on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:58PM (#22622820)
Do you find the US government responsible for a conspiracy theory being popular on social media?
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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by duxup on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:21AM (#22627715)
Did a US official start it on a platform controlled by the US... then yeah maybe.
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