New evidence published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica confirms that Beijing has been trying to keep COVID-19 information from the rest of the world since the beginning of the pandemic.
On February 7, Li Wenliang, the doctor who blew COVID-19, died of a disease he warned the world about. While working at Wuhan Central Hospital in Hubei Province, China, he saw a new version of the severe acute respiratory syndrome known as SARS, which also appeared in China in 2002.
As the news of the premature death of the 34-year-old doctor spread and the pain went viral on social networks such as Weibo and WeChat – Beijing set out to bury the truth.
“They ordered the news sites not to issue push notifications warning readers [Li’s] death. They told social platforms to gradually remove their names from pages with trending topics. And they have activated legions of fake online commentators to flood social sites with fun discussions “, reports the Times-ProPublica team. In total, the Hangzhou offices of the Beijing Internet Regulatory Authority, China’s Cyberspace Administration, issued more than 3,200 directives and 1,800 notes in its COVID censorship drive – all revealed by hacker group CCP [Chinese Communist Party] Unmasked.
“At a time when digital media is deepening social divisions in Western democracies,” the investigation team warns, “China is manipulating online discourse to impose the Communist Party’s consensus.”
In January, before the coronavirus was even definitively identified, the CCP began working over the program to mislead the world about the truth, to protect the party’s image, as infections began to grow – even making the disease it seems less severe. As a result, the world has lost most of its chances of preventing the global pandemic.
This is a cursed exposure from two left-leaning news organizations. Now it is up to the left, right and center to unite to demand that the CCP be held accountable for its obscene efforts to protect its own image at the huge and deadly expense of the world.