A man looks at a computer screen with a Facebook logo in Warsaw, Poland on Feb. 21, 2021. (Photo illustration by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Meta said the Chinese network’s activity specifically targeted Anglophone audiences in the United States and United Kingdom with COVID-19 misinformation.
Their operation also went after Chinese-speaking audiences in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet.It dates back to July when someone posing as a Swiss biologist named Wilson Edwards claimed the U.S.
was putting pressure on scientists from the World Health Organization to blame China for the novel coronavirus. Multiple Chinese-run outlets ran stories about the claims.In August, the Swiss Embassy denied having any citizen by that name.