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RU falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing bioweapons. This has been thoroughly debunked. The claim was amplified though by China, QAnon, Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson. https://voxukraine.org/en/public-health-fakes-kennedy-jr-confirms-the-development-of-bioweapons-in-ukraine-issue-37 https://euvsdisinfo.eu/let-there-be-monsters-and-biolabs/ https://www.debunk.org/back-to-the-soviet-basics-ukrainian-biolabs-and-dirty-bombs-in-the-kremlin-s-propaganda https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2022/03/fact-check-russia-did-not-find-over-30-biological-labs-in-ukraine-formed-by-the-pentagon.html https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/02/24/us-biolabs-ukraine-russia/ https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1087910880/biological-weapons-far-right-russia-ukraine https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-russia-war-us-biological-weapons-lab-conspiracy-theory/ https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/18/ukrainian-bioweapons-labs-qanon-fox-news https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_theory https://theconversation.com/ukraine-biolabs-how-attempts-to-debunk-a-conspiracy-theory-only-helped-it-spread-180403 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-russia-war-us-biological-weapons-lab-conspiracy-theory/ https://nation.africa/kenya/news/no-the-us-has-not-built-a-biological-weapons-lab-at-kemri--3818270 https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/disarming-russias-bioweapons-disinformation https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-demands-us-explain-biological-programme-ukraine-2022-03-09/

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• RU falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing bioweapons. This has been thoroughly debunked. The claim was amplified though by China, QAnon, Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson. https://voxukraine.org/en/public-health-fakes-kennedy-jr-confirms-the-development-of-bioweapons-in-ukraine-issue-37 https://euvsdisinfo.eu/let-there-be-monsters-and-biolabs/ https://www.debunk.org/back-to-the-soviet-basics-ukrainian-biolabs-and-dirty-bombs-in-the-kremlin-s-propaganda https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2022/03/fact-check-russia-did-not-find-over-30-biological-labs-in-ukraine-formed-by-the-pentagon.html https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/02/24/us-biolabs-ukraine-russia/ https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1087910880/biological-weapons-far-right-russia-ukraine https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-russia-war-us-biological-weapons-lab-conspiracy-theory/ https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/18/ukrainian-bioweapons-labs-qanon-fox-news https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_theory https://theconversation.com/ukraine-biolabs-how-attempts-to-debunk-a-conspiracy-theory-only-helped-it-spread-180403 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-russia-war-us-biological-weapons-lab-conspiracy-theory/ https://nation.africa/kenya/news/no-the-us-has-not-built-a-biological-weapons-lab-at-kemri--3818270 https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/disarming-russias-bioweapons-disinformation https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-demands-us-explain-biological-programme-ukraine-2022-03-09/