Posted on 04/28/2020 3:43:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, saying she brought the disease to China.
The false claims are spreading across YouTube every day, so far racking up hundreds of thousands of apparent views, and have been embraced by Chinese Communist Party media. Despite never having tested positive for the coronavirus or experienced symptoms, Benassi and her husband are now subjects of discussion on Chinese social media about the outbreak, including among accounts that are known drivers of large-scale coordinated activities by their followers.
The claims have turned their lives upside down. The couple say their home address has been posted online and that, before they shut down their accounts, their social media inboxes were overrun with messages from believers of the conspiracy.
"It's like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day," Maatje Benassi told CNN Business in an exclusive interview, the first time she has spoken publicly since being smeared online.
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What surprises me is that since this is CNN, they are not hounding her and asking her why she spread the virus to Wuhan.
Evidently, even CNN is not buying this particular piece of Red Chinese propaganda. Which is noteworthy, over the years, they have made a cottage industry of kissing both leftist and dictator rear ends. But I guess they do have a limit, who would’ve thunk it?
> The false claims are spreading across YouTube every day, so far racking up hundreds of thousands of apparent views, and have been embraced by Chinese Communist Party media.
It seems likely the CCP might have started this claim. Of course CNN would never consider something so likely.
Why hasn't George Webb been whacked?
What I am surprised about is they have not demanded to have sex with her for an exotic flavor like in Sodom, before it dies
Gee. Embraced by them? Embraced by them?
They need to change their tag line to “Please don’t laugh”.
It is not Chinese propaganda, it is actually good reporting by George Webb, this is being done to smear him and obviouslt distract. He shows excellent connections that does lead to her as patient zero. It could not be more obvious CNN is doing their normal BS, otherwise there is no reason to do a story on them in the first place. George only has a following of 100K people.
I am sure that not buying into this is part of the CCP’s larger plan of trying to squash speculation outside of official channels...all of which are already controlled by the CCP.
Webb never said she spread the virus. Only that she tested positive for anti-bodies and she was the 1st case in Md., claims to have a source. Something is going on, the phone call between Webb and CNN has been taken down from his site.
Agree
Twitter has his account “down” he must be hovering over a target....
Yes, a couple of his videos are gone, and his Twitter account is gone
Funny how CNN does not mention Benassi involvement/position at W.H.O.
Or due to Red Chinese propaganda.
WHO board member for USA, currently says, “to be communicated”
The WHO is scrambling
someone struck a nerve ~ Over The Target ...
Wow!!
Thanks for posting...
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