It took the Lancet 16 months(!) to publish a conflict of interest statement revealing that Daszak was linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance.
As somebody who probably incited/funded/created covid19, he was heavily incentivized to hide this crime.
Facebook ENABLED this coverup
Worse, Daszak was also part of WHO-led international mission[0] to investigate the origins of the pandemic(!!) in early 2021, though he eventually recused himself in June 2021[1]
[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655057/Facebook-fa...
> Facebook ENABLED this coverup.
Wat? How is this not considered a conspiracy theory? 5 comments down an article that discusses fact checking...
Hm, maybe my sarcasm-meter is off by a notch again. dunno.
It's at the following link, at about the 1 hour 17 minute mark.
I do condemn this lie and believe people had a right to know that it is a possibility. But the condition for that would be that people are able to restrain themselves to not act on suspicions. This was not fully the case.
But even with that they should have come clean with their suspicions and adapt them as further evidence surfaced.
News exists to make money, and a faster but less accurate story is more profitable
Arguable whether adding a ‘fake news’ label is censorship.
The only real question is why the government exempts this particular corporation from following the usual rules that publishers have to follow.
It's worse - it's poisoning the well, which can be far more effective than outright censorship.
Second, Facebook has removed, completely memory-holed, twenty million posts relating to Covid "misinformation" without any accountability.
I can't find how many of those related to the lab leak theory (a significant fact itself), but I think it's pretty safe to say that many of those 20 million removed posts related to the novel coronavirus lab situated a few miles from the novel coronavirus outbreak.
To this day the lab leak theory is seen by many as unscientific or a conspiracy theory, and that's in no small part entirely due to FB and Twitter deciding that they had the right to tag and remove information on a question that was very, very clearly not actually settled by science.
[0] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/facebook-remo...
https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994?...