Twitter Bans ZeroHedge For Publishing Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory, Doxxing Chinese Doctor
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Is the coronavirus outbreak really the result of engineered bioweapons research? Experts say no, but right-leaning financial blog ZeroHedge says yes. The experts are probably right, which is one of the reasons why Twitter banned the blog’s account permanently on Friday.
Last Wednesday, ZeroHedge’s founder posted an article under the pseudonym Tyler Durden entitled, “Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?” that shared the name and personal information of a Chinese doctor and researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and linked him to the conspiracy theory.
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