PolitiFact Quietly Retracts Fact Check Of COVID-19 Wuhan Lab Theory

Fact-checker Politifact, operated by the Poynter Institute, retracted a fact check asserting a Hong Kong virologists' lab theory assessment was false.

Twitter suspends account of Chinese virologist who claims China manufactured, released COVID-19 to create havoc



Twitter reportedly suspended the account of Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan — just hours after she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that China intentionally manufactured and released the COVID-19 virus.

What did she say on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'?

During Tuesday night's broadcast of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Yan said she believed that the Chinese government released the virus — which she claimed was man-made — on purpose.

"I work[ed] in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world, in the University of Hong Kong," she told Carlson. "And the thing is, I deeply get into such investigation in secret from the early beginning of this outbreak. I had my intelligence because I also get my own unit network in China, involved [in] the hospital ... also I work with the top corona[virus] virologist in the world."

She also claimed that forthcoming information from an as-yet identified source would corroborate her claims.

"I have evidence to show why they can do it, what they have done, how [they did it]," she alleged.

"So, together with my experience, I can tell you, this is created in the lab," she claimed. "And also, it is spread to the world to make such damage."

What happened with Twitter?

Either late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, Twitter reportedly suspended an account purportedly belonging to Yan for violating Twitter rules and regulations.

The move appears to come just days after Yan published a paper, co-authored with three other Chinese scientists, alleging that the COVID-19 virus was man-made in a China laboratory by using bat coronaviruses as a template.

According to web archive site Wayback Machine, Yan had four active tweets on her page before Twitter suspended the account.

One tweet linked to the recent research. Another tweet sent users to her research credentials. A third tweet alleged that the Zenodo repository — which hosted the research paper — had been hacked. A fourth was a retweet from Trump aide Peter Navarro who spoke about Yan's claim against China, saying it would be "unbelievable if it weren't so believable."

The New York Post reported that Twitter refused to comment on the alleged suspension.

TheBlaze has also reached out to the social media company for comment on the matter and is waiting for a response.

Claims she is a target of the Chinese Communist Party

Yan in July publicly alleged that China attempted to quash the spread of information on its handling of the virus in the early stages of the pandemic. At the time, she impressed the importance of delivering the "message of the truth of COVID," and said that a previous supervisor cautioned her to "keep silent" and "be careful."

"As he warned me before, 'Don't touch the red line,'" Yan said in July. "We will get in trouble and we'll be disappeared."

The scientist fled China in April and, according to Fox, "fears retaliation."

"The scientific world also keeps silent," she said. "[W]orks together with the Chinese Communist Party, they don't want people to know this truth. That's why I get suspended, I get suppressed, I am the target that Chinese Communist Party wants disappeared."

Virologist who fled China says Beijing is lying about COVID — and she has the evidence to prove it



A Chinese virologist who escaped to the United States earlier this year claims the coronavirus is man-made — and she says she has the evidence to prove it.

What are the details?

Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who was formerly based in Hong Kong, explained on British talk show "Loose Women" last Friday that she was one of the first Chinese scientists to conduct research on the novel virus. She claimed the Chinese government, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, is lying to the world about the origins of COVID-19.

Officially, the Chinese government claims the virus originated from a wet market in Wuhan. But Yan called the claim a "smokescreen" — and said the virus actually came from the infamous Wuhan bio lab.

"It comes from the lab— the lab in Wuhan and the lab is controlled by China's government," Yan said.

Yan, who holds both an MD and a PhD, said she obtained her intelligence about the virus from the Chinese CDC and local doctors on the ground in China.

In fact, Yan told "Loose Women" that she will soon publish "all the scientific evidence" she has to prove communist China's responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The genome sequence is like our human finger print," Yan said of the evidence. "So, based on this you can identify these things. I use the evidence … to tell people why this has come from the lab in China, why they are the only ones who made it."

"Everyone, even if you have no biology knowledge, you can read it, and you can check and identify and verify by yourself," she continued. "This is the critical thing for us to know the origin of the virus. If not, we cannot overcome it — it will be life-threatening for everyone alive."

Virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan Claims Coronavirus Lab 'Cover-Up' Made Her Flee China | Loose Women www.youtube.com

What is the background?

Yan told Fox News earlier this year that she fled to the United States in April because she was silenced by her supervisors at the Hong Kong School of Public Health. Yan said she wants to "deliver the message of the truth of COVID."

Specifically, Yan said she tried to warn about human-to-human transmission, which the Chinese government initially denied, but was ignored by her supervisors.

Yan told Fox News that on Jan. 16 her supervisor warned her to "keep silent, and be careful."

"As he warned me before, 'Don't touch the red line,'" Yan explained. "We will get in trouble and we'll be disappeared."