Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-12-22 23:14:41 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 1E20D4CADB22B06C74BD119430314BC92E97F47A5F3C30EF9F610631AAA515E3
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The claim about Sir Richard Dearlove confessing that COVID-19 was engineered for depopulation is completely false and misrepresents his actual statements: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/03/exclusive-coronavirus-began-accident-disease-escaped-chinese/ https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-claims/ The scientific community widely agrees that the virus was not artificially engineered as a bioweapon: https://science.feedback.org/review/financial-analyst-david-martin-misrepresents-studies-patent-applications-promote-baseless-claim-sars-cov-2-developed-bioweapon/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9420317/ https://www.dw.com/en/covid-19-why-were-looking-for-the-pandemics-origin/a-68513146 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00074-5/fulltext Bias: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/news-punch/ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/british-spy-chief-confesses-covid-was-engineered-to-depopulate-the-planet/
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