Chinese media in fake news claims over Swiss scientist critical of US
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from World news | The Guardian on (#5N6FW)
State media quietly erases articles on biologist Wilson Edwards after Switzerland says he does not exist
Chinese state media articles quoting a Swiss biologist accusing the US of politicising Covid origin investigations have been quietly deleted, after the Swiss government said no such person exists.
On 24 July, a Facebook post by an account named Wilson Edwards claimed to have witnessed or learned of US efforts to politicise the World Health Organization's Covid-19 investigations from within.
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