Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths

  • Those numbers were faked. See the screenshots from the original website here:

    http://archive.ph/https://news.qq.com/zt2020/page/feiyan.htm

    I've seen this pattern before (Epstein, Douma, the principle of net neutrality etc.). Fake data is released to muddy the water hoping that someone seeking for the truth is accidentally going to pick it up to then discredit / censor this person. If someone will then leak the actual truth that is similar to the faked one people are then less likely to look at it even if proof is provided.

  • Why would Tencent be given this data in the first place?

    Seems like clickbait...

  • I wonder if there's any indirect way way to get mortality rates... Say number of social media accounts active, or number of webpage requests from an IP range...

  • There are actually small differences in the two images (text color, etc.).