In mid-January 2020, Dr. Yan Limeng, aresearcher at the University of Hong Kong, told her favorite YouTube host, WangDinggang that she had heard the rumor about the origin of the GOVID-19. WangDinggang has been criticizing the Chinese government and has close ties with a billionairenamed Guo Wengui who fled to the United States from China. On January 25, 2020, to promote thebiological weapons conspiracy theory ,a media called G News published anarticle with the content China will recognize coronavirus from Its P4Laboratory. G News is not the only media publishing this article, but itsparticipation is extremely important because G News has close ties with GuoWengui and Steve Bannon. Guo Wengui founded and funded G News. In October 2017, Guo Wengui and SteveBannon formed a party alliance to jointly promote anti-communist actionsthrough the foundation of the rule of law and the rule of law society. Theorganization is funded by Guo Wengui, and Bannon is responsible for itsmanagement. It aims to protect and help individuals who are persecuted inChina. Guo Wengui said that he and Bannon worked together because they bothopposed China. Bannon said that before Yan Limeng’s firstreport was released, Wang Dinggang had showed him the YouTube video andtranslated for him. As doubts about the origin of COVID-19 continued to spreadin right-wing media networks, Guo Wengui and Bannon contacted Yan Limeng. Thisis the beginning of Yan Limeng's report being manipulated by the media.
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