Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: teevee who wrote (21477)	10/17/2022 8:16:57 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	9 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita Brumar89 Burlitis Eric L kidl and 4 more members Respond to of 22867

The Epoch Times is not a credible source. Please take the ant-vax misinformation elsewhere. The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have spread conspiracy theories such as QAnon and anti-vaccine misinformation, [39] and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election. [42] In 2020, The New York Times called it a "global-scale misinformation machine". [34] The Epoch Times frequently promotes other Falun Gong-affiliated groups, such as the performing arts company Shen Yun. [24] [43] [34] ---------------------------------- COVID-19 coverage and misinformation See also: Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic § Wuhan lab origin The Epoch Times has spread misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic in print and via social media including Facebook and YouTube. [98] [99] It has promoted anti-CCP rhetoric and conspiracy theories about the pandemic, for example through an eight-page special edition called "How the Chinese Communist Party Endangered the World", which was distributed unsolicited in April 2020 to mail customers in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. [100] [101] In the newspaper, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is known as the " CCP virus", [98] [100] [93] and a commentary in the paper posed the question, "is the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan an accident occasioned by weaponizing the virus at that [Wuhan P4 virology] lab?" [98] [100] The paper's editorial board suggested that COVID-19 patients cure themselves by "condemning the CCP" and "maybe a miracle will happen". [71] In France, "special" French-language print editions of The Epoch Times were distributed in 2021 during anti- Health pass protests. [75] In Germany, The Epoch Times has published articles blasting the legitimacy of PCR tests and promoting conspiracy theories about vaccination mishaps. [22] The misinformation tracker NewsGuard called the French page of The Epoch Times one of the "super-spreaders" of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook, citing an Epoch Times article that suggested the virus was artificially created. [102] [103] NewsGuard later changed the rating of the English edition of The Epoch Times from green to red. [31] A February 17, 2020, Epoch Times story shared a map from the internet that falsely alleged massive sulfur dioxide releases from crematoria during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, speculating that 14,000 bodies may have been burned. [104] A fact check by AFP reported that the map was a NASA forecast taken out of context. [104] A widely viewed video released by The Epoch Times on April 7, 2020, was flagged by Facebook as "partly false" for "the unsupported hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioengineered virus released from a Wuhan research laboratory." The video featured Judy Mikovits, an anti-vaccination activist. [105] [106] The fact-checker Health Feedback said of the video that "several of its core scientific claims are false and its facts, even when accurate, are often presented in a misleading way." [99] On April 29, 2020, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) story reported that some Canadians were upset to receive a special edition of The Epoch Times that called COVID-19 the "CCP virus". The CBC later retracted a headline on its story that had quoted a recipient saying the special edition was "racist and inflammatory", and the CBC also retracted a claim that The Epoch Times edition had concluded that COVID-most shared outlet in en.wikipedia.org