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A fake Swiss biologist named Wilson Edwards — who sought to convince the world that the United States was attempting to blame the COVID-19 pandemic on China — was actually the Chinese government, Facebook said Wednesday.
The claims were allowed to spread from July 24 to August 10, and stories of the US' "intimidation" were picked up across global social media and Chinese state media outlets like the Global Times and People's Daily, the company, now known as Meta, said in its yearly adversarial threat report.
It wasn't until Aug. 10 that Facebook took Edwards' account down after the Beijing-based Swiss Embassy confirmed there was no record of a citizen named Wilson Edwards.
The account was created just 12 hours before it started posting its fake claims on both Facebook...
When asked to comment on recent claims by the head of Taiwan's regional foreign affairs department that the Taiwan authorities are conducting dialogues and consultations with politicians and socia...