As the world asks how COVID emerged from Wuhan, China pushes back with conspiracy theory about Army post in Maryland

It’s a notion that China has spread in what Steve S. Sin, a University of Maryland, College Park researcher of international security and influence operations, called a disinformation campaign to deflect blame for China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the Maryland installation has a long history of research involving dangerous germs, at one time seeking to weaponize some of them for biological warfare, there’s a certain logic to setting a coronavirus conspiracy theory there, he said.

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