The US government contractor who led the effort to dismiss the lab leak theory of covid's origin not only knew the theory was legitimate, he may have helped create the virus. It's another case of disinformation & censorship as two sides of the same coin.

public.substack.com/p/dismissal-of…
Since 2018, Democratic members of Congress, experts, and think tanks including the Aspen Institute have urged social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to do more to censor information, and they have. In September 2020, for example, Facebook censored a "Tucker Carlson… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The episode raises troubling questions about the growing censorship by social media platforms at the behest of government officials, government contractors, and ostensibly nonpartisan scientists and experts. Under pressure from governmental and public.substack.com/p/dismissal-of…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Now that the U.S. Department of Energy has joined FBI in concluding that the coronavirus likely leaked from a lab, it’s worth remembering that the media, en masse, condemned the lab leak theory as a “debunked conspiracy theory,” and Facebook censored people who dared suggest it
We still don’t know where the virus came from. WSJ says DOE “made its judg­ment with ‘low con­fidence.’” Four other agencies say it had natural origins and two are undecided

But that was the case in 2020 when journalists and Facebook pretended they knew

wsj.com/articles/covid…
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Funny that. People don’t like Woke totalitarian censorship.

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“It has seen a 600 per cent surge in sales of Roald Dahl compared to the week before, while the author accounts for eight of the 10 top-selling children’s books since Saturday... “Sales in Roald Dahl books have risen exponentially over the last week and Wob is not expecting to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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