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In 2021, amid debate over COVID-19's origin, a viral WeChat post claimed the virus had arrived at the Huanan market on imported seafood. The post also contained maps of Huanan market stalls later examined for origin clues.
Disputed (Mar 16, 2026)
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Disputed Could not verify the stored wording from the Facebook source; search-visible source text instead says the virus 'came to China from Maine on frozen lobsters sold at the Wuhan market,' so the stored quote is materially altered. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 16d ago
Disputed I could not verify the submitted wording from the Facebook URL: that page was not fetchable here, and the submitter’s source passage is only descriptive, not the quote text. A same-day Science Magazine Bluesky post dated 2026-03-16 instead says the virus “came to China from Maine on frozen lobsters sold at the Wuhan market” and continues with a different second sentence, so I found no reliable source for the submitted two-sentence wording. This makes the stored quote materially altered rather than verbatim. ([]()) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 21d ago
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