Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday he removed accounts used by an influencer operation from China that promoted claims by a bogus “Swiss biologist” claiming the United States was interfering with research the origins of COVID-19. Meta said in a report that the social media campaign was “largely unsuccessful” and targeted English-speaking audiences in the United States and Britain and Chinese audiences in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet. The claims of “Swiss biologist” Wilson Edwards were widely cited by Chinese state media in July. In August, several Chinese newspapers deleted comments and deleted articles citing him after the…