The drama of coronavirus Reddit pales in comparison to the threat faced by actual outbreak victims. China’s most popular messaging app, Tencent-owned WeChat, has been censoring keywords about coronavirus since as early as January 1st, an analysis found. Tencent\'s \'Epidemic Situation Tracker\' briefly showed confirmed coronavirus cases as of Feb 1 at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time, with a death toll of 24,589... and then everything quietly changed.Ten days ago, shortly after China first started reporting the cases and deaths associated with the coronavirus epidemic, a UK researcher predicted It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure. Chinese internet giant Tencent has invested for the first time in social news and discussion site Reddit, putting in $150 million in a round that values Reddit at $3 billion. Research on coronavirus genomes indicates the majority of COVID-19 cases in New York came from European travellers, rather than directly from China or any other Asian country. I joined the r/Coronavirus sub for information around Jan. 20, just as a member. Reddit users have clamored to several coronavirus-related subreddits, including r/coronavirus, which has more than 600,000 members. On late Saturday evening (Feb. 1), Tencent, on its webpage titled "Epidemic Situation Tracker," showed confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time.

An online Reddit forum that thinks China is under-reporting the total number of Coronavirus infections and deaths is proving their point through a mathematical equation that's freakishly accurate thus far. Retesting of prior samples found a person in France who had the virus on 27 December 2019 [528] [529] and a person in the United States who died from the disease on 6 February 2020. (Tencent/Fake label by Radio-Canada) A screenshot purportedly showing the real death toll of the coronavirus in China — putting it over 80 times higher than the official number — has gone viral.

The world is reeling under Coronavirus scare right now, with the number of people getting infected and fatalities rising with each passing day -- within China and around the world. Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Investments and Sequoia Capital were among the other investors in the round. Billionaire Bill Gates weighed in on the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday while hosting a Q&A on Reddit.. A reported investment by Chinese tech giant Tencent in Reddit has sparked a backlash on the popular community news site over censorship fears. Funds will be used to prepare for production of a five-seater electric aircraft . Tencent today is among the world’s most valuable companies, an internet and social media giant best known for its ubiquitous WeChat app.