SPECIAL REPORT: Canadian academics have uncovered which coronavirus words and phrases were censored in China to bury evidence of an outbreak. The phrases “Wuhan Virus Lab” and “Successful history of lab director” were blocked, reports Houghtontweets
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China engaged in several disturbingly sophisticated methods of burying evidence of the coronavirus in late December which may have led to the deaths of more than 100,000 people. A Special Report by a group of Canadian academics has shed light on the high-tech methods the Chinese Communist Party used to control the flow of COVID-19 information in the early days of the timeline, revealing hundreds of Chinese citizens were detained or punished by the communist party for “spreading rumours”.
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