Another sign of the times at Twitter under Elon Musk: The platform is now fact-checking Beijing.
The Musk-owned social-media giant attached a note pointing out that most fentanyl comes from China to a Chinese government spokesperson’s Tuesday tweet slamming U.S. deaths from COVID-19, firearms and fentanyl.
“China is the main source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United States,” said the fact-check, which linked to a 2020 Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence report.
The response came after Hua Chunying, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, reacted to U.S. support for Chinese anti-lockdown protesters.
“The price of ‘freedom’ in the US: 1 million Covid deaths + 40,000 gun deaths per year + 107,622 Fentanyl deaths in 2021 alone,” she tweeted.