Trump supporters on Twitter spread coronavirus rumours about China

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Mark Scott on politico.com on June 2, 2020Nearly 30 groups of Twitter users who identified themselves as supporters of President Donald Trump, the Republican Party or the conspiracy theory QAnon spread rumours that the coronavirus was a bioweapon created in China, according to new research.An analysis of more than 2.6 million tweets over a 10-day period from late March found that 28 so-called Twitter…

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