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From Stanford professor's passing, rumors of ties to Chinese government emerge (stanforddaily.com)
24 points by lawrenceyan on Jan 4, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Guo Wengui is the Chinese equivalent of the fake news problem we have in Western politics.

It hit me when a (first gen Chinese immigrant) relative of mine started telling me about "Qmap" and "QAnon" and how much she was learning about who is in power in the world. I asked how she ended up on this part of the web and why she trusted it. She got into it basically by being a rabid follower of Guo Wengui and following some links from other followers


I greatly enjoyed listening to Professor Zhang’s guest lecture at Google when his talk was first posted onto Youtube [1]. I may have never had the chance to meet him personally, but I know for a fact that it is with immense loss to the world that this man had his life cut short. The physics community and science as a whole mourns at his passing.

[1] Link if interested - https://youtube.com/watch?v=MozDSajpLTY




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