CBC News: How this CBC story turned into a coronavirus conspiracy theory

[Emily]

I found the Twitter account of the American businessman CBC thinks is the origin of the conspiracy theory and he is a hedge fund manager with interests in Hong Kong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5o8aO7e1tQ

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A CBC News report was distorted to create a conspiracy theory circulating online, claiming that Chinese scientists stole the coronavirus from a Winnipeg lab. Here's how that false information spread. To read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5442376

 

[Emily]

The hedge fund manager above tweeted a disturbing Zerohedge attack on a scientist that urged people to pay him a visit or at least email or phone and gave the contacts. I did some checking and found out this about the hedge fund manager:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcast...w-kind-of-influencer-friend-of-presidents-kid

July 22, 2019
By Jake Pearson
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The efforts, detailed in hundreds of pages of government emails and other documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show that ***** had access to the highest levels of government to influence policymaking in ways that could lead to painful economic outcomes for the Chinese — and a potentially lucrative result for *****’ hedge fund friend, ****.

“When somebody comes in like this, a hedge fund manager who has an interest in the viability of China’s economy, you’re giving them an opportunity to influence policy,” said Virginia Canter, a former ethics lawyer at the Treasury Department who now serves as chief ethics counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group....
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****, who made his name and fortune by betting against subprime mortgages before the crash and is known for large bets that economies or certain macro trends will turn downward, declined to comment...

Putting a short squeeze on an economy the size of China's seems dangerous to me and so would a trend to incite against and scapegoat a scientist. Where will that end?

 

[bertrand789]

Merci, dans toutes les crises , cela existe. Pour limiter cela il faut culturellement passer de la science des risques ? celle des dangers. Aux USA , vous avez fait na?tre la m?thode H.A.C.C.P . Mais il y a encore beaucoup trop de personne qui se gausse dans la science des risques... Cette crise est la preuve que la Chine est un grand pays avec une immense culture et qu'elle va induire un changement de fonctionnement de bien des instances internationales...