Oxford Researcher Sheds Light on China Disinformation

Published: 10/26/2021, 12:51:32 AM EDT

Since the pandemic's discovery in Wuhan early last year, Beijing has made a number of attempts to shift blame for the virus origin away from China—and heap it onto other nations.

Marcel Schliebs is a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford. He's been tracking messages that pro-Beijing social media accounts have spread around Twitter for the past 18 months—and he's found a surprising virus origin theory.