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Chinese virologist who claimed coronavirus was created in a lab and fled to US has been suspended by Twitter

EditorCNBC, Fox News, Yahoo NewsSeptember 16, 2020

Dr Li-Meng Yan speaking to Tucker Carlson on Tuesday ((Fox News))
Dr Li-Meng Yan speaking to Tucker Carlson on Tuesday ((Fox News))

Twitter has suspended the account of a Chinese virologist who claimed that Covid-19 was “man-made” and created in a Wuhan lab.

Dr Li-Meng Yan, who claims to be a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong School of Public Health, had her Twitter account suspended by the social media site earlier this week.

The virologist, who had more than 60,000 followers on Twitter before her account was suspended, made headlines this week when she claimed to have evidence that the Chinese government was involved in creating the virus, which has so far killed more than 936,156 people worldwide. She claims she fled to LA and is now in hiding in the U.S.

Twitter introduced a policy in May to label posts that contain information about Covid-19, which has been disputed or is controversial.

The site said the policy was introduced to “provide additional explanations or clarifications in situations where the risks of harm associated with a tweet are less severe but where people may still be confused or misled by the content.”

Twitter did not …continued .
[Source: CNBC News]

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