{"id":3889,"date":"2021-12-02T17:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/facebook-takes-down-chinese-network-behind-fake-swiss-biologist-covid-claims\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:43:05","slug":"facebook-takes-down-chinese-network-behind-fake-swiss-biologist-covid-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/facebook-takes-down-chinese-network-behind-fake-swiss-biologist-covid-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook takes down Chinese network behind fake Swiss biologist Covid claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says misinformation spread by fictional scientist called Wilson Edwards focused on US blaming pandemic on China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s owner has taken down a Chinese misinformation network that attempted to spread claims about coronavirus using a fake Swiss biologist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a>, the parent organisation of Facebook and Instagram, said it had taken down more than 600 accounts linked to the network, which it said included a \u201ccoordinated cluster\u201d of Chinese state employees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/02\/facebook-owner-meta-takes-down-chinese-network-spreading-fake-covid-posts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b020ba558b30d975aa5a1d30fd0bb44b5898b38\/0_120_3601_2161\/master\/3601.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4b077c83b3c4da845d0a0f950f501506\" title=\"Facebook takes down Chinese network behind fake Swiss biologist Covid claims\" \/>Meta says misinformation spread by fictional scientist called Wilson Edwards focused on US blaming pandemic on China<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nSee all our coronavirus coverage<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s owner has taken down a Chinese misinformation network that attempted to spread claims about coronavirus using a fake Swiss biologist.<br \/>\nMeta, the parent organisation of Facebook and Instagram, said it had taken down more than 600 accounts linked to the network, which it said included a \u201ccoordinated cluster\u201d of Chinese state employees. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says misinformation spread by fictional scientist called Wilson Edwards focused on US blaming pandemic on China Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Facebook\u2019s owner has taken down a Chinese misinformation network that attempted to spread claims about coronavirus using a fake Swiss biologist. Meta, the parent organisation of Facebook and Instagram, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/facebook-takes-down-chinese-network-behind-fake-swiss-biologist-covid-claims\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook takes down Chinese network behind fake Swiss biologist Covid claims<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}