{"id":35059,"date":"2021-08-11T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T08:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/11\/chinese-media-fake-news-claims-swiss-scientist-wilson-edwards-critical-of-us"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T08:52:02","slug":"chinese-media-in-fake-news-claims-over-swiss-scientist-critical-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35059","title":{"rendered":"Chinese media in fake news claims over Swiss scientist critical of US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media quietly erases articles on biologist Wilson Edwards after Switzerland says he does not exist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese state media articles quoting a Swiss biologist accusing the US of politicising Covid origin investigations have been quietly deleted, after the Swiss government said no such person exists.<\/p>\n<p>On 24 July, a Facebook post by an account named Wilson Edwards claimed to have witnessed or learned of US efforts to politicise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/china-refuses-further-inquiry-into-covid-19-origins-in-wuhan-lab\">World Health Organization\u2019s Covid-19 investigations<\/a> from within.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/11\/chinese-media-fake-news-claims-swiss-scientist-wilson-edwards-critical-of-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media quietly erases articles on biologist Wilson Edwards after Switzerland says he does not existCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese state media articles quoting a Swiss biologist accusing the US of politicising C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,221,238,1287,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-media","category-switzerland","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35059\/revisions\/35060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}