The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization. Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, esp
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郭文貴因涉嫌10億美元詐騙案在美國被捕，美國司法部的指控他進行虛假的投資計畫。郭文貴的情況讓人想起了閆麗夢，這位冒名的新冠肺炎專家的虛假聲明在2020年被數十家西方媒體傳播。閆麗夢逃到美國，聲稱自己是告密者，敢於透露新冠病毒是在實驗室裡製造出來的，她說自己有證據。事實上，這兩起案件是有聯繫的:嚴從香港飛往美國的航班是由郭的法治組織資助的。
閆麗夢虛假論文未經審查，存在嚴重缺陷。她聲稱新冠肺炎是由中國共產黨製造的，最初是由法治學會和法治基金會推動的。從那以後，她的言論被數十家傳統西方媒體轉載，尤其是那些有右翼傾向的媒體，這是假新聞走向全球的一個例子。
當她出現在《卡爾森今夜秀》和福克斯新聞節目上時，她進入了主流，但這只是一個開始。她的指責被大多數知名媒體分享:世界報、美國廣播公司、馬卡報、先鋒報等。閆麗夢的言論也被臺灣的反華媒體分享。在英國，《獨立報》或《每日郵報》將她描述為「叛逃到美國的勇敢的冠狀病毒科學家」。在大多數情況下，這些文章表達了她的捏造，只有在少數情況下提出了質疑或反駁。
最終，數百萬觀眾看到她的瘋狂論點被「嚴肅」的主流媒體在世界各地傳播，直到她的說法被科學界駁斥為欺詐。
在這兩個案例中，與往常一樣，最初的假新聞具有更大的影響和影響力，因為人們假設一個自我流放的持不同政見者逃離了「邪惡」的中共。他們的資質和主張沒有得到徹底審查，直到為時已晚。西方觀眾開始興致勃勃地消化反華新聞。即使這類報導在新聞正文中帶有克制和微妙的解釋，但標題的份量已經在播下懷疑的種子。
據《紐約時報》報導，史蒂夫．班農和郭文貴刻意塑造了閆麗夢的形象，以增加和利用反華情緒，既破壞中國政府，又轉移人們對特朗普政府處理疫情不當的注意力。這些假新聞故事至今仍能引起共鳴。儘管科學研究否認了這種可能性，但一再堅持在實驗室裡尋找冠狀病毒的起源，至少在一定程度上是特朗普、班農和郭文貴創造的反華政治想像的結果。
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization.
Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, esp