This Is Really A Fascinating Story Of How Intelligence Of Disease Outbreaks Can Be Gleaned.

This appeared a day or so ago. A chance to get smarter in cyber space of intelligence ·         By Danielle Cave ·         12:00AM July 11, 2020 In mid-November last year, WeChat users in China started discussing a new virus spreading in Wuhan. Words and phrases such as SARS, coronavirus, novel coronavirus, Feidian (the Chinese equivalent of SARS), shortness of breath, dyspnoea and diarrhoea all began to increase in use across China ’s most popular messaging app. As the virus spread, volunteer open-source researchers in China began collecting and archiving online material, including through GitHub, a Microsoft-owned coding and collaboration platform, to protect and preserve information at risk from China’s internet censors. Later, some of these open-source researchers, web archivists and citizen journalists would be detained, their online projects shut down. We will never know how many governments were... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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