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2023-08-18 17:02:31 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: AFDD4EF497E5A43F6EAAB14DB3115EE55D33C78DC0E25EB78B2CE5C0A44A8F4A
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RU falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing bioweapons. This was thoroughly debunked. The claim was amplified though by China, QAnon, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News / Tucker Carlson. 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
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