Time to once again shame everyone who lied and tried to shut this discussion down!
A thread:
WaPo: “Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked”
“Sen. Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan”
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
In a now-retracted fact-check, Politifact gave a Tucker Carlson guest a “Pants on Fire” for the “debunked conspiracy theory” that COVID came from a lab. politifact.com/li-meng-yan-fa…
Media Matters: Influential podcast host Joe Rogan spread an unfounded claim that COVID-19 “comes out of a lab in Wuhan.”
Still no correction on this piece, of course! mediamatters.org/joe-rogan-expe…
Facebook banned any mentions of the lab leak, following “consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization.”
theguardian.com/technology/202…
NYT reporter: The lab leak theory has “racist roots”
This was AFTER the WSJ reported that Wuhan researchers were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in fall 2019 nationalreview.com/news/new-york-…
After Trump and Pompeo floated the lab leak theory:
CNN’s Don Lemon: “How far off are the president's claims compared to what your sources are telling you?”
CNN senior reporter Alexander Marquardt: “Well, Don, they're pretty much the exact opposite.”
cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/20…
MSNBC Nicolle Wallace: “Donald Trump [is] turning his intelligence community to now investigate a conspiracy theory about COVID coming from a lab in Wuhan.”
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American.
Amazingly, this tweet from Vox is still up.
Always remember how the media and social media companies conspired to cover up the truth about how China killed MILLIONS of people around the globe.
For no other reason than it was conservatives telling the truth.
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