>>11393474Or use inspect to change the html. That doesn't change the fact Tencent, who owns WeChat, which is China's Facebook, Twitter, youtube, gmail, skype, Amazon, etc. all rolled into one, who is essentially a state megacorporation, did publish those numbers briefly before "correcting" them.
thetaiwantimes com/tencent-might-have-leaked-the-data-of-actual-deaths-caused-by-wuhan-virus/1489
timesofindia indiatimes com/world/china/tencent-lists-25k-deaths-1-54-lakh-infections-from-coronavirus/articleshow/73978033.cms
>Tencent lists 25k deaths, 1.54 lakh infections from coronavirusthesun co uk/news/10904402/coronavirus-chinese-media-giant-lists-deaths-as-24589/
>Chinese media giant lists death toll at 24,589 but quickly changes to 304 sparking conspiraciestaiwannews com tw/en/news/3871594
>Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus>b-but I'm not trying to say it didn't happen!Well, you kind of are suggesting exactly that. But it did happen, ie Tencent or someone there did publish those numbers. Considering the undoubtedly harsh punishment that would befall someone for something like that, I highly doubt it was a prank. I'm inclined to believe it was a whistleblower who felt it was too important. And given how quickly every clickbait-tier CCP-owned english language news sites jumped to cast doubt over whether it actually happened and claims it was "just a photoshop, bro, I can tell by the pixels" just adds weight to that.
I'm not even inclined to believe those numbers, maybe the CCP thought it'd be in their interests to publish high figures only to then debunk them to kind of say "sure it's bad but at least it's not THIS bad" to lend credence to own "fake news fact checkers" or simply to make the real figures (which are probably higher than what's released) more palatable by comparison. Or it's a real whistleblower. Interpret however you will, it did happen.
