How crazy is this? Chinese 'Netizens' Claim Americans Are Eating Coronavirus Dead. What's unbelievable is that you will have people who believe this. Chinese social media is reporting that the American government is processing dead virus corpses and turning them into hamburger meat and feeding the people here in the United States. Sounds tasty doesn't it? :(
The site is called WeChat They claim Beijing shut them down. But their page titled "Scholar Forum for Ultimate Truth" had 1.7 million visitors. We have this from Knowledia.
There is little evidence that China is interested in shutting down anti-American conspiracy theories, especially given that the Chinese Foreign Ministry has peddled them officially. The most regularly touted conspiracy theory about the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is the claim that the virus did not originate in Wuhan, China, where the first cases were reported, but in a U.S. Army laboratory in MarylandThe Post noted that one of the most outrageous posts on the "Scholar Forum for Ultimate Truth" page, a pro-communist conspiracy WeChat account, accused Americans of eating those killed by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
"The US has been processing dead bodies from Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] diseases into hamburgers," the page reportedly claimed, adding that the bodies "were very likely of being processed into frozen meat, fake beef or pork, or processed into cooked meat as hamburgers and hot dogs."
The page offered as evidence of this claim the unsubstantiated allegation that "cannibalism has existed in the U.S. before … and only a few dozen years ago, Americans ate blacks, Indians and Chinese."
The offending post was published last month and garnered 100,000 readers as well as nearly 1,000 financial contributors to the page. The Post reported that its content was not unusual for the page, which regularly posted anti-Western, anti-American conspiracy theories and insults. The page was reportedly only taken down this week.
"While China has the world's most sophisticated censorship system, misinformation and sensational content still runs wild on the internet. There are about 30 million social media accounts on WeChat alone," the Post observed.
Source:Knowledia
