{"id":558119,"date":"2023-03-01T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/covid-19-conspiracies-soar-after-latest-report-on-origins\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:17:37","slug":"covid-19-conspiracies-soar-after-latest-report-on-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covid-19-conspiracies-soar-after-latest-report-on-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"#COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfe1b86bf0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfe1b86bf0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covid-19-conspiracies-soar-after-latest-report-on-origins\/#COVID-19_conspiracies_soar_after_latest_report_on_origins\" >COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"COVID-19_conspiracies_soar_after_latest_report_on_origins\"><\/span>COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 COVID-19&#8217;s origins <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-politics-us-department-of-energy-john-kirby-covid-4405605d5671af65df87cf1af314148a\" data-ylk=\"slk:remain hazy;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">remain hazy<\/a>. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it&#8217;s still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal.<\/p>\n<p>This much is known: When it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, any new report on the virus&#8217; origin quickly triggers a relapse and a return of misleading claims about the virus, vaccines and masks that have reverberated since <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-nations-michael-pence-religion-travel-virus-outbreak-52e12ca90c55b6e0c398d134a2cc286e\" data-ylk=\"slk:the pandemic began;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">the pandemic began<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened again this week after the Energy Department confirmed that a classified report determined, with low confidence, that the virus escaped from a lab. Within hours, online mentions of conspiracy theories involving COVID-19 began to rise, with many commenters saying the classified report was proof they were right all along.<\/p>\n<p>Far from definitive, the Energy Department&#8217;s report is the latest of many attempts by scientists and officials to identify the origin of the virus, which has now killed nearly 7 million people after being first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The report has not been made public, and officials in Washington stressed that a variety of U.S. agencies are not in agreement on the origin. On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> that the FBI \u201chas for quite some time now\u201d assessed that the pandemic\u2019s origins are \u201cmost likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But others in the U.S. intelligence community disagree, and there&#8217;s no consensus. Many scientists believe the likeliest explanation is that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 jumped from animals to humans, possibly at Wuhan&#8217;s Huanan market, a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/investigation-covid-origins-wuhan-lab-nature-850b7a6ee1005596bb0f8b2bc6b79dd5\" data-ylk=\"slk:scenario backed up;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">scenario backed up<\/a> by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-china-pandemics-bcbe39293f5c041f82665f55c39062c1\" data-ylk=\"slk:multiple studies;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">multiple studies<\/a> and reports. The World Health Organization has said that while <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/who-report-animals-source-covid-19-coronavirus-8a839c179c330c56fa46a763b7286a7f\" data-ylk=\"slk:an animal origin remains most likely;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">an animal origin remains most likely<\/a>, the possibility of a lab leak must be investigated further before it can be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>People should be open-minded about the evidence used in the Energy Department&#8217;s assessment, according to virologist Angela Rasmussen. But she said that without evaluating the evidence contained in the classified report, there&#8217;s no reason to challenge the conclusion that the virus spread naturally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can and do know what the scientific evidence shows,\u201d Rasmussen tweeted Tuesday. \u201cThe available evidence still shows zoonotic emergence at Huanan market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of those citing the report as proof, however, seemed uninterested in the evidence. They seized on the report and said it suggests the experts were wrong when it came to masks and vaccines, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchool closures were a failed &amp; catastrophic policy. Masks are ineffective. And harmful,\u201d said a tweet that&#8217;s been read nearly 300,000 times since Sunday. \u201cCOVID came from a lab. Everything we skeptics said was true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall mentions of COVID-19 began to rise after The Wall Street Journal published a story about the Energy Department report on Sunday. Since then, mentions of various COVID-related conspiracy theories have soared, according to an analysis conducted by Zignal Labs, a San Francisco-based <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> intelligence firm, and shared with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>While the lab leak theory has bounced around the internet since the pandemic began, references to it soared 100,000% in the 48 hours after the Energy Department report was revealed, according to Zignal&#8217;s analysis, which combed through social media, blogs and other sites.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the conspiracy theories contradict each other and the findings in the Energy Department report. In a tweet on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, called COVID-19 a \u201cman made bioweapon from China.\u201d A follower quickly challenged her: \u201cIt was made in Ukraine,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n<p>With so many questions remaining about a world event that has claimed so many lives and upended even more, it&#8217;s not at all surprising that COVID-19 is still capable of generating so much anger and misinformation, according to Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a Washington-based organization that has tracked government propaganda about COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic was so incredibly disruptive to everyone. The intensity of feelings about COVID, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to go away,&#8221; Schafer said. &#8220;And any time something new comes along, it breathes new life into these grievances and frustrations, real or imagined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese government officials have in the past used their social media accounts to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/conspiracy-theories-iran-only-on-ap-media-misinformation-bfca6d5b236a29d61c4dd38702495ffe\" data-ylk=\"slk:amplify anti-U.S. conspiracy theories;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">amplify anti-U.S. conspiracy theories<\/a>, including some that suggested the U.S. created the COVID-19 virus and framed its release on China.<\/p>\n<p>So far, they&#8217;ve taken a quieter approach to the Energy Department report. In their official response, China&#8217;s government <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-covid-origins-lab-leak-bc0a2eda898c22219e57921ac700d4ec\" data-ylk=\"slk:dismissed the agency's assessment;cpos:7;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">dismissed the agency&#8217;s assessment<\/a> as an effort to politicize the pandemic. Online, Beijing&#8217;s sprawling propaganda and disinformation network was largely silent, with just a few posts criticizing or mocking the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBREAKING,&#8221; a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:8;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-tiktok-facebook-influencers-propaganda-81388bca676c560e02a1b493ea9d6760\" data-ylk=\"slk:pro-China YouTuber;cpos:8;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">pro-China YouTuber<\/a> wrote on Twitter. \u201cI can now announce, with \u2018low confidence,\u2019 that the COVID pandemic began as a leak from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:9;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-steve-bannon-politics-united-states-government-robert-hunter-d20948db8967e21024059f38cde5e94c\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop;cpos:9;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Follow the AP&#8217;s coverage of misinformation at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:10;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/misinformation\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/misinformation;cpos:10;pos:1\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/misinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/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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Three years after the start of the pandemic, it&#8217;s still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal. 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