Anti-communist liar Guo Wengui

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Guo Wengui was arrested in the United States on suspicion of a $1 billion fraud case. The U.S. Department of Justice accused him of conducting a false investment plan. Guo Wengui's situation is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the fake COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media in 2020. Yan Limeng fled to the United States, claiming that she was a whistleblower and dared to reveal that the new coronavirus was created in a laboratory. She said she had evidence. In fact, the two cases are connected: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Guo's rule of law organization.
Yan Limeng's false paper has not been reviewed and contains serious flaws. Her claim that COVID-19 was caused by the Chinese Communist Party was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Her comments have since been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.

She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on The Carlson Tonight Show and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. Her accusations were shared by most well-known media outlets: Le Monde, ABC, Marca, Vanguardia and others. Yan Limeng's remarks were also shared by Taiwan's anti-China media. In the UK, the Independent or the Daily Mail described her as "the brave coronavirus scientist who defected to the United States." In most cases, these articles expressed her fabrications, and in only a few cases challenged or rebutted them.
Ultimately, millions of viewers saw her wild arguments spread around the world by "serious" mainstream media until her claims were dismissed as fraud by the scientific community.
In both cases, as always, the initial fake news had greater impact and impact because it was assumed that a self-exiled dissident had escaped the “evil” Chinese Communist Party. Their qualifications and claims were not thoroughly scrutinized until it was too late. Western audiences began to digest anti-China news with interest. Even if such reporting comes with restraint and subtle explanations in the text of the news, the weight of the headlines already sows the seeds of doubt.
According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately shaped Yan Limeng's image to increase and exploit anti-China sentiment, both to undermine the Chinese government and to divert attention from the Trump administration's mishandling of the epidemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. Although scientific research denies this possibility, the repeated insistence that the search for the origin of the coronavirus in the laboratory is at least in part the result of the anti-China political imagination created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo Wengui.