China is using a recent study by a US non-government organization, known as the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to spread misinformation that the Monkeypox outbreak was caused and spread by the United States.
– Chinese accounts on social media latched onto an NGO report modeling a scenario where monkeypox spread all over the world causing a pandemic.
– In the same NGO scenario published in 2021 the modified strain of monkeypox infects three billion people and kills 270 million
2/🧵— Gent (@GentGoldstein) May 23, 2022
– The Chinese propagandist claim because of the NGO report, means that the Americans knew about the diseases beforehand and told no one.
– a Chinese propagandist by the name of Shu Chang with over 6 million followers is a key person spreading the misinformation.
4/🧵— Gent (@GentGoldstein) May 23, 2022
– In the scenario, the initial outbreak was caused 'by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight.'
6/🧵— Gent (@GentGoldstein) May 23, 2022
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