Image: Pixabay The owner of Facebook, Meta Platforms, has removed a network of accounts on its systems that were dedicated to online disinformation, primarily based in China. The Chinese Covid misinformation accounts promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist called “Wilson Edwards”, which were then picked up by Chinese state media outlets. One of the claims by the fake biologist was that the US was meddling in efforts to find the source of Covid-19. Meta’s report said the campaign was “largely unsuccessful” and showed that it targeted English-speaking audiences in the United States and Britain, and Chinese speaking audiences…