The Twitter account belonging to the Chinese virologist who said she can prove the coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab and intentionally released was suspended.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan’s Twitter account, followed by just under 60,000 people, was suspended this week after she claimed to possess scientific evidence that China manufactured and released the coronavirus.
“It comes from the lab, the lab in Wuhan, and the lab is controlled by China’s government,” Yan said in an interview this month, adding that the proposed theory that the virus came from a Chinese wet market was a “smokescreen.”
Twitter declined to comment on the suspension.
Yan appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program and commented on the censorship she’s encountered.
“The scientific world also keeps silent, works together with Chinese Communist Party. They don’t want people to know this truth,” she said. “That’s why I get suspended. I get suppression. I am the target that Chinese Communist Party wants to be disappeared.”
Following her appearance, Carlson accused Facebook of limiting access to the video of the interview he posted.
“Facebook is working hard to make sure you’re unable to see our latest post regarding a coronavirus whistleblower,” Carlson wrote on Facebook. “They don’t want you sharing the video, and they are limiting the number of people who can view it. This is censorship, and we will be addressing it on our show tonight at 8pm ET on Fox News.”
China has denied that the virus was created in a lab, and many American health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, agreed with that denial.
