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A month before an alleged leak of files from Hunter Biden’s laptop, a bogus “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, claiming an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden’s son and his business. in China.
The document, a 64-page composition that was later released by close Trump associates, appears to be the work of a bogus “intelligence firm” called Typhoon Investigations, according to investigators and public documents.
The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to the analysis of disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen’s profile photo was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.
One of the original posters for the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen doesn’t exist.
Despite the document’s questionable authorship and anonymous origin, his claims that Hunter Biden has a problematic connection to the Communist Party of China have been used by opponents of the Chinese government, as well as far-right influencers, to baseless indictment of candidate Joe Biden. of being in debt to the Chinese government.
