Keegan Leech

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“The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by Glaxosmithkline,” claims a message that has been posted several times on…

A graphic that has been viewed over 4 million times since it was posted on Facebook on 8 January 2021 claims that face masks worn to slow the spread of Covid-19 cause brain damage and bacterial pneumonia, and starve your body and its organs of oxygen.

It includes a photo of a newspaper article…

“The UN says that the Christian Church is the enemy of human rights,” begins a message widely copied and shared on Facebook. The UN, the United Nations, is an international organisation with 193 member states.

The message goes on to claim that the UN “says that it will become a world religion to…