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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 9, 2022, 01:44 PM Mar 2022

A debunked conspiracy theory about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine was seized on by Russian

and Chinese media outlets

A debunked conspiracy theory touted by Infowars and Twitter conspiracy theorists about the US operating biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine has been seized on by Russian and Chinese news outlets.

On March 2, Foreign Policy reported on Twitter user WarClandestine's post in February that said: "It certainly appears Putin is targeting the cities and locations with #USBiolabs present. He is 100% going after the alleged bioweapons."

In the same thread, WarClandestine outlined what they said was credible evidence that the US had bioweapons in Ukraine. The account — which has since been suspended — was run by an individual named Jacob, who appeared to be American and claimed to have served in the US military, per Foreign Policy.

Following the tweet, the QAnon-linked Infowars platform published an article titled: "Russian Strikes Targeting US-Run Bio-Labs in Ukraine?" Citing information from various Twitter posts, the article claimed that US biological weapons laboratories "are believed to operate in many cities that were recently attacked by Russia."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-debunked-conspiracy-theory-about-us-bio-weapons-laboratories-in-ukraine-was-seized-on-by-russian-and-chinese-media-outlets/ar-AAUOMFR

Watch out Russkies. The labs are producing a gas that makes you gay. The plan is to spray the Russian Army with this which will cause them to do an about face back to Moscow where they'll abuse Putin.



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A debunked conspiracy theory about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine was seized on by Russian (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
FAUX News will be repeating it soon, they got to get back to working for their masters uponit7771 Mar 2022 #1
The "information age" cilla4progress Mar 2022 #2
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