Mary B Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Twitter suspends Chinese virologist who claims COVID-19 was lab-made Emily Crane For Dailymail.com 20 hrs ago © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Twitter has suspended the account of a Chinese virologist who has publicly claimed that COVID-19 was developed in a Wuhan laboratory. Li-Meng Yan's account was taken down on Tuesday after she accused China of intentionally manufacturing and releasing COVID-19. The Twitter account remained down on Wednesday and a message on the page now reads: 'Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.' Twitter has not commented on the suspension of Yan's account. The social media giant started putting warning messages on tweets in May that contained disputed coronavirus claims. © Provided by Daily Mail Li-Meng Yan's account was taken down on Tuesday after she accused China of intentionally manufacturing and releasing COVID-19 It is not clear if there was one specific tweet from Yan that violated Twitter's policy. In an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night, Yan claimed she was suspended because 'they don't want the people to know this truth'. Yan, who is a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, said COVID-19 was 'man-made' and 'not from nature'. 'I have evidence to show why they can do it, what they have done, how (they did it),' she told Fox News. 'The scientific world also keeps silent... works together with the Chinese Communist Party, they don't want people to know his truth. That's why I get suspended, I get suppressed, I am the target that Chinese Communist Party wants disappeared.' After the segment aired, the Fox News show also accused Facebook of censorship after saying they had been blocked from sharing the interview segment on the social media platform. A video of the interview segment posted on the Tucker Carlson Tonight show's page now comes with a warning that reads: 'False Information. This post repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact-checkers say is false.' http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/twitter-suspends-chinese-virologist-who-claims-covid-19-was-lab-made/ar-BB196Yc3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U453DHP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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