{"id":42302,"date":"2022-03-09T23:36:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/29-of-britons-think-china-likely-to-have-spread-covid-on-purpose-poll-says"},"modified":"2022-03-09T23:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:36:29","slug":"nearly-30-think-china-likely-to-have-spread-covid-on-purpose-uk-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42302","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 30% think China likely to have spread Covid on purpose, UK poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report warns that rise in support for conspiracy theories is fuelling recruitment for far right<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than a quarter of people believe Covid-19 was likely to have been a biological weapon intentionally spread by the Chinese state, according to a new UK poll highlighting the spread of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are contained in <a href=\"https:\/\/file\/\/\/Volumes\/Downloads\/Internet%20Downloads\/EMBARGOED%2009.03.22%20-%20STATE%20OF%20HATE%20(1).PDF\">a major report<\/a> by the campaign group Hope Not Hate (HNH) warning that the rise of Covid conspiracy theories and the antilockdown movement are recruiting young people to far-right ideas and movements.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/29-of-britons-think-china-likely-to-have-spread-covid-on-purpose-poll-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report warns that rise in support for conspiracy theories is fuelling recruitment for far rightSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a quarter of people believe Covid-19 was likely to have been a biological weapon intentionally spread by the Chines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[50,1066,346,79,1218,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-society","category-the-far-right","category-uk-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\/42302","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42303,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions\/42303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}