WILL PEOPLE STOP SHARING FAKE COVID STORIES. PLEASE

WILL PEOPLE STOP SHARING FAKE COVID STORIES. PLEASE

We all know that the Russian and Chinese secret services are making up and circulating fake news about the Covid, but friends and acquaintances are unwittingly helping their efforts to destabilise the free world by re-posting their lies.

This story about a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who says that, Covid was created in China and that all the scientists who worked on it have disappeared, is all lies. All of it. Yet people are re-posting this stuff in case we "find it interesting". But some people will buy into the conspiracy thesis And that's dangerous for us all. Dangerolus for internation al relations, free speech the lot.

My suggestion, if you get a social media message that ends with words like these in capital letters, PLEASE FORWARD TO THE LARGEST NUMBER SO THAT THE GUILTY MUST PAY WHAT HAPPENS TO US ALL !!!! It’s almost certainly lies. So, STOP and THINK! Please.

This, from the BBC fact-checkers:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a false claim that Honjo believed that the novel coronavirus had been "manufactured" by a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan was widely disseminated on the internet in many languages. The BBC Reality Check team reported that, "In a statement published on the website of Kyoto University, (the scientist) said he was 'greatly saddened' that his name had been used to spread 'false accusations and misinformation'. Scientists say genome sequencing shows that the virus came from animals and was not man-made."[10]

Here is an extract from the original fake post:

* SHOCKING *

The Japanese professor of physiology or medicine, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, caused a sensation today in the media by saying that the corona virus is not natural. if it is natural, it will not have affected the whole world like that.

“ased on all of my knowledge and research to date, I can say this with 100% confidence that Corona is not natural. It did not come from bats. China made it. if what I say today turns out to be false now or even after I die, the government can withdraw my Nobel Prize. but China is lying and this truth will one day be revealed to all.

PLEASE FORWARD TO THE LARGEST NUMBER SO THAT THE GUILTY MUST PAY WHAT HAPPENS TO US ALL !!!!

Here's another silly example of fake news|: That's Nonsense