{"id":141840,"date":"2020-12-26T01:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chinas-virus-deceptions-have-been-even-worse-than-we-thought\/"},"modified":"2020-12-26T01:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:16:43","slug":"chinas-virus-deceptions-have-been-even-worse-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinas-virus-deceptions-have-been-even-worse-than-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"#China\u2019s virus deceptions have been even worse than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#China\u2019s virus deceptions have been even worse than we thought<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Li-Wenliang_Wuhan-Flu-Doc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fresh evidence <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/19\/technology\/china-coronavirus-censorship.html\">published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica<\/a> confirms that Beijing has been trying to keep COVID-19 information from the rest of the world since the very start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 7, Li Wenliang, the doctor who blew the whistle on COVID-19, died of the disease he\u2019d warned  the world about. While working at Wuhan Central Hospital in China\u2019s Hubei Province, he saw a new version of the severe acute respiratory syndrome known as SARS, which also originated in China in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> of the 34-year-old doctor\u2019s untimely death spread and grief went viral on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> such as Weibo and WeChat \u2014 Beijing set out to bury the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey ordered news websites not to issue push notifications alerting readers to [Li\u2019s] death. They told social platforms to gradually remove his name from trending topics pages. And they activated legions of fake online commenters to flood social sites with distracting chatter,\u201d the Times-ProPublica team reports. In all, the Hangzhou offices of Beijing\u2019s Internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, issued more than 3,200 directives and 1,800 memos in its COVID-censorship drive \u2014 all leaked by the hacker group C.C.P. [Chinese Communist Party] Unmasked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when digital media is deepening social divides in Western democracies,\u201d the investigative team warns, \u201cChina is manipulating online discourse to enforce the Communist Party\u2019s consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, before the coronavirus had even been definitively identified, the CCP began working overtime to mislead the world about the truth to protect the party\u2019s image as infections began soaring \u2014 even making the disease look less severe. As a result, the world lost its best chance of preventing the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>This is a damning expose from two left-leaning news organization. Now it\u2019s up to left, right and center to unite in holding the CCP to account for its obscene effort to protect its own image at the huge and deadly expense to the entire world.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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