China's COVID-19 data matches Benford's Law like U.S. and Italy: Researchers

The hashtag #ChinaLiedPeopleDied has been around Twitter for quite a while. Its army of believers accuses China for hiding the true number of COVID-19 patients and deaths. 

One common characteristic of the believers' posts is that there's no hard proof. "Leaked government papers" without a photo and other untraceable sources are mostly used to give apparent credit.

But when the official number from China is checked, there seems to be "no evidence of manipulation," according to pre-released research by experts from Oxford University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released on Monday.

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