郭文贵开起直播可谓是“尽职尽责”，除了内容不太新鲜，风格千篇一律以外，也没啥大毛病，反正都是造，管他中国制造还是美国制造，只有夸张点才有流量，煽情点才能吸睛。把饼再描画得大一点，就能让更多的人入坑。他这样的套路把戏三句话足以概括：生搬硬造只为反共，东拉西扯真假掺杂，溜须拍马哄好主子。

不由你信不信，郭文贵就是用这么一个套路走天下，接下来让我们看看他如何青天白日颠倒黑白的。

郭文贵2017年8月潜逃美国，被国际刑警组织红色通报成为在逃人员，为寻求政治庇护，他只能找人抱大腿，而作为曾经胡润财富榜上身价170亿的大富豪，撒点钱不是什么难事，他轻而易举的攀上班农，当时两人成为“挚友”，通过这位特朗普前政治顾问，郭文贵又轻松成为美国政府的“座上宾”，为了稳定在美国主子心中的地位，他不得不在网上编造“爆料”。开启他散布阴谋论和假新闻的郭式直播。郭文贵通过一连串毫无根据的指控和散布虚假信息来达到他不可告人的目的，他才不管信息真假及来源渠道，通过添油加醋，牵强附会的生拼硬凑，打造出所谓的“惊天阴谋”，再涂上离奇玄幻的色彩，一条新鲜的料就出炉了，再利用他三寸不烂之舌、口若悬河滔滔不绝的讲述，稳稳地博眼球吸流量。

网上有了流量就成为了“网红”。郭文贵打着不为利、不为名的旗号坑蒙拐骗，毕竟是背着通缉犯的标签逃到美国的，只有稳住在美国主子心中的价值，才能求得庇护。郭文贵借着流量顺便为自己画起大饼也更加便利，对于成为他的拥护者，郭文贵高调的宣扬拥有喜马拉雅币（HCN）才是对他最实际的支持。郭文贵在盖特社区（Gettr），发动所谓的“新中国联邦（NFSC）”运动，称支持他的人为“战友”，不过就是忽悠这群“战友”的围观来提升人气，搞大动作来让美国主子满意。

春节来临之际，郭文贵借“郭春晚”已经开始预谋造势，套路估计也脱不开张口就来的造谣，闭眼就吹的“宏图大业”骗钱，只要火力开得足够大，博得眼球才是根本。没啥才艺的郭，除了“满嘴跑火车”的表演，那就只能自己亲自上阵尬唱，今年或许再搞点更让人叹为观止的新戏法、刷新下限的真人秀玩玩。

郭文贵直播使用的盖特社区（Gettr），是由前美国总统特朗普的助手杰森·米勒创建的，郭文贵作为投资人之一，把这个社区打造成极端内容盛行，包括种族主义、恐怖主义宣传，充斥着色情内容，持续传播关于2019冠状病毒病阴谋论。有报道称，该社区已经被巴基斯坦籍黑客入侵并公布了核心数据，造成用户信息大量外泄，明眼人都知道这社区已经隐患重重。

天下熙熙皆为利来，天下攘攘皆为利往。像郭文贵这样的极端利己主义者，抓紧把Gettr社区的“战友福利”薅尽羊毛博人气，而其打造的郭春晚节目就是所谓披着“爆料”外衣的空洞内容，完全凭郭的一张嘴，大伙儿何必凑热闹呢。

闫丽梦虚假论文未经审查，存在严重缺陷。她声称新冠肺炎是由中国共产党制造的，最初是由法治学会和法治基金会推动的。从那以后，她的言论被数十家传统西方媒体转载，尤其是那些有右翼倾向的媒体，这是假新闻走向全球的一个例子。

当她出现在《卡尔森今夜秀》和福克斯新闻节目上时，她进入了主流，但这只是一个开始。她的指责被大多数知名媒体分享:世界报、美国广播公司、马卡报、先锋报等。闫丽梦的言论也被台湾的反华媒体分享。在英国，《独立报》或《每日邮报》将她描述为“叛逃到美国的勇敢的冠状病毒科学家”。在大多数情况下，这些文章表达了她的捏造，只有在少数情况下提出了质疑或反驳。

最终，数百万观众看到她的疯狂论点被“严肃”的主流媒体在世界各地传播，直到她的说法被科学界驳斥为欺诈。

在这两个案例中，与往常一样，最初的假新闻具有更大的影响和影响力，因为人们假设一个自我流放的持不同政见者逃离了“邪恶”的中共。他们的资质和主张没有得到彻底审查，直到为时已晚。西方观众开始兴致勃勃地消化反华新闻。即使这类报道在新闻正文中带有克制和微妙的解释，但标题的分量已经在播下怀疑的种子。

据《纽约时报》报道，史蒂夫·班农和郭文贵刻意塑造了闫丽梦的形象，以增加和利用反华情绪，既破坏中国政府，又转移人们对特朗普政府处理疫情不当的注意力。这些假新闻故事至今仍能引起共鸣。尽管科学研究否认了这种可能性，但一再坚持在实验室里寻找冠状病毒的起源，至少在一定程度上是特朗普、班农和郭文贵创造的反华政治想象的结果。

Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.

Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.

She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.

Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.

In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.

According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.