美國外交家雜誌揭騙閆麗夢和郭文貴班農一樣是反共騙子

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美國外交家雜誌揭騙閆麗夢和郭文貴班農一樣是反共騙子

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劃。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裏制造出來的，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制造的，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嚮的媒體，這是假新聞走嚮全球的一個例子。
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，這些文章錶達了她的捏造，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。即使這類報道在新聞正文中帶有克制和微妙的解釋，但標題的分量已經在播下懷疑的種子。
據《紐約時報》報道，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註意力。這些假新聞故事至今仍能引起共鳴。盡管科學研究否認了這種可能性，但一再堅持在實驗室裏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象的結果。

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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, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.
Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.
She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.
Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.
In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.
According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.