143 John Dotson, “The CCP’s New Leading Small Group for Countering the Coronavirus Epidemic—and the Mysterious Absence of Xi Jinping,” Jamestown Foundation, February 5, 2020, https://jamestown.org/program/the-ccps-new-leading-small-group-for-countering-the-coronavirus-epidemic-and-the-mysterious-absence-of-xi-jinping.
144 Vanessa Molter and Renée DiResta, “Pandemics & Propaganda: How Chinese State Media Creates and Propagates CCP Coronavirus Narratives,” Misinformation Review, June 8, 2020, https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/pandemics-propaganda-how-chinese-state-media-creates-and-propagates-ccp-coronavirus-narratives.
145 Paul Mozur et al., “China Uses YouTube Influencers to Spread Propaganda,” New York Times, December 31, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html.
146 Renée DiResta, “For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy,” The Atlantic, April 11, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/chinas-covid-19-conspiracy-theories/609772.
147 Lijian Zhao (@zlj517), “CDC was caught on the spot,” Twitter, March 12, 2020, 10:37 a.m., https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823.
148 DiResta, “For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy.”
149 Bret Schafer and Raymond Serrato, “Reply All: Inauthenticity and Coordinated Replying in Pro-Chinese Communist Party Twitter Networks,” Institute for Strategic Dialogue, August 6, 2020, https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/reply-all-inauthenticity-and-coordinated-replying-in-pro-chinese-communist-party-twitter-networks; Brandy and Schafer, “How China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomats Use and Abuse Twitter.”
150 Renée DiResta et al., “Sockpuppets Spin COVID Yarns: An Analysis of PRC-Attributed June 2020 Twitter Takedown,” Stanford Internet Observatory, June 11, 2020, https://fsi.stanford.edu/publication/june-2020-prc-takedown.
151 Josh Lederman, “U.S. Insisting That the U.N. Call Out Chinese Origins of Coronavirus,” NBC News, March 25, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-insisting-u-n-call-out-chinese-origins-coronavirus-n1169111.
152 Nathaniel Gleicher, “Labeling State-Controlled Media on Facebook,” Meta, June 4, 2020, https://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/labeling-state-controlled-media; “New Labels for Government and State-Affiliated Media Accounts,” Twitter, August 6, 2020, https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/new-labels-for-government-and-state-affiliated-media-accounts.
CHAPTER 7: VIRUSES, VACCINES, AND VIRALITY
1 Jennifer Kasten, “What Judy Mikovits Gets Wrong,” Medpage Today, May 12, 2020, https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/86461.
2 Sheera Frenkel, Ben Decker, and Davey Alba, “How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online,” New York Times, May 21, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/technology/plandemic-movie-youtube-facebook-coronavirus.html.
3 Angelo Fichera et al., “The Falsehoods of the ‘Plandemic’ Video,” FactCheck.org, May 8, 2020, https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/the-falsehoods-of-the-plandemic-video.
4 See Jon Cohen, “Controversial CFS Researcher Arrested and Jailed,” Science, November 19, 2011, https://www.science.org/content/article/controversial-cfs-researcher-arrested-and-jailed. Charges were later dropped.
5 Jon Cohen, “In a Rare Move, Science Without Authors’ Consent Retracts Paper That Tied Mouse Virus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” Science, December 22, 2011, https://www.science.org/content/article/updated-rare-move-science-without-authors-consent-retracts-paper-tied-mouse-virus.
6 Stuart J. D. Neil and Edward M Campbell, “Fake Science: XMRV, COVID-19, and the Toxic Legacy of Dr. Judy Mikovits,” AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 36, no. 7 (July 2020): 545–549.
7 Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen, “Fact-Checking Judy Mikovits, the Controversial Virologist Attacking Anthony Fauci in a Viral Conspiracy Video,” Science, May 8, 2020, https://www.science.org/content/article/fact-checking-judy-mikovits-controversial-virologist-attacking-anthony-fauci-viral.
8 Josh Rottenberg and Stacy Perman, “Meet the Ojai Dad Who Made the Most Notorious Piece of Coronavirus Disinformation Yet,” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-05-13/plandemic-coronavirus-documentary-director-mikki-willis-mikovits.
9 “Infodemic,” WHO, https://www.who.int/health-topics/infodemic.
10 “Launching the Virality Project,” Stanford Internet Observatory Cyber Policy Center, https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/content/virality-project.
11 Katherine Schaeffer, “Nearly Three-in-Ten Americans Believe COVID-19 Was Made in a Lab,” Pew Research, April 8, 2020, https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/08/nearly-three-in-ten-americans-believe-covid-19-was-made-in-a-lab; Aaron Blake, “How the Covid Lab Leak Became the American Public’s Predominant Theory,” Washington Post, March 16, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/16/lab-leak-theory-polling.
