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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/05/china-is-exploiting-search-engines-push-propaganda-about-origins-covid-19-study-finds/
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/data-void-china-covid-disinformation/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1230123.shtml
https://www.nature.com/articles/514411a
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8674931&icde=49752569
https://archive.is/wip/jW22J
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin-chaos-under-heaven-wuhan-lab-book-excerpt-474322
https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/p3co.pdf
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/04/nih-gain-of-function-anthony-fauci-review-board-wuhan-lab/
https://usrtk.org/biohazards/origin-of-sars-cov-2-gain-of-function-readings/

China Manipulating Google, Bing Search Results To Advance Covid-19
Conspiracy Theories

China has been taking advantage of a 'data void' in order to flood
social media platforms with Chinese-backed conspiracy theories
regarding the origins of Covid-19, which in turn affects algorithmic
results from popular search engines such as Google and Bing, according
to the Washington Post, citing a Tuesday report by the Alliance for
Securing Democracy (ASD).

The Chinese posts have almost exclusively focused on a theory that
Covid-19 was created in a lab at Fort Detrick, home to the US Army's
Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) - which
will ring a bell for anyone who read The Hot Zone, and was then
purposefully spread throughout Wuhan, China during the October 2019
Military World Games.
Illustration via China's state-run Global Times

By saturating social media platforms with this theory, it now crops up
when people search for other things via popular search engines.

    What’s particularly noteworthy about the campaign, researchers
said, is that the officials have tapped into a highly effective means
for spreading misinformation and disinformation: filling the Internet
with misleading content on issues where there’s a dearth of reliable
information. The result is that when users search for these more
obscure topics — when they type “Fort Detrick” into Google or Bing —
they are more likely to see Chinese-backed conspiracy theories.

    ...

    According to the report, news search results for Fort Detrick
across Google, YouTube and Bing were “dominated” by state-run Chinese
media such as CGTN and the Global Times at various times since May.
Researchers called the outlets “central to Beijing’s information
operations.” -WaPo

"It gives an advantage to those who are trying to promote this
conspiracy because they continue to publish on it over and over and
over and over, so that when someone who's not familiar with the term
just Googles it … you tend to get the conspiracy theorist’s point of
view," said Bret Schafer, a media and digital disinformation fellow at
ASD who co-authored the report.

China's disinformation campaign conceals their own involvement

We know from government contracts, FOIA records, and leaked emails
that the US government was conducting risky gain-of-function research
on US soil until former President Obama banned it in 2014 over ethical
questions raised by the scientific community. The 'research' included
manipulating bat Covid to be more transmissible to humans. Instead,
the research was shifted overseas to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
and laundered through New York nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance - whose
CEO Peter Daszak secured lucrative contracts to study and manipulate
bat coronaviruses in Wuhan China four months before Obama's ban.

The first $666,442 installment of EcoHealth's $3.7 million NIH grant
was paid in June 2014, with similar annual payments through May 2019
under the "Understanding The Risk Of Bat Coronavirus Emergence"
project.

Then, in 2017, a subagency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci - resumed funding a controversial grant
to genetically modify bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China without the
approval of a government oversight body.

Notably, the WIV "had openly participated in gain-of-function research
in partnership with U.S. universities and institutions" for years
under the leadership of Dr. Shi 'Batwoman' Zhengli, according to the
Washington Post's Josh Rogin.

In 2017 the "Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO)
Framework was formed within the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS)," which was tasked with evaluating the risks involved
with enhancing dangerous pathogens, as well as whether proper
safeguards are in place, before a grant into 'gain-of-function' or
similarly risky research can be issued. Fauci's National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - the subagency which funded
EcoHealth - didn't think the grant needed review, and resumed their
relationship with Daszak without flagging it for the P3CO committee,
an NIH spokesperson told the Daily Caller.

We also know (thanks to a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept) that Daszak
wanted to release 'Chimeric Covid Spike Proteins' Into Bat Populations
Using 'Skin-Penetrating Nanoparticles,' only to be denied by DARPA on
the grounds that it was too risky.

The bid was submitted by Daszak, who was hoping to use genetic
engineering to cobble "human-specific cleavage sites" onto bat Covid
'which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells' - a
method which would coincidentally answer a longstanding question among
the scientific community as to how SARS-CoV-2 evolved to become so
infectious to humans.

Daszak's proposal also included plans to commingle high-risk natural
coronaviruses strains with more infectious, yet less deadly versions.
His 'bat team' of researchers included Dr. Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, as well as US researchers from the University
of North Carolina and the US Geological Survey National Wildlife
Health Center.

"This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to
the current pandemic," said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S.
Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of
Covid-19 (via The Intercept).

And so - China's Fort Detrick propaganda completely ignores the
international collaboration between the US NIH and Wuhan scientists.