PolitiFact also quietly retracted their lab leak fact check (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/politifact-retracts-wuhan-lab-theory-fact-check https://

PolitiFact also quietly retracted their lab leak fact check (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/politifact-retracts-wuhan-lab-theory-fact-check https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/politifact-retrac...). It’s incredible to me how just last year and up until a couple months ago, journalists and social media users viciously attacked those who proposed the lab leak hypothesis. It resulted in numerous acts of censorship (for example Zero Hedge’s ban from Twitter around a year ago), and was also incorrectly used to attack Trump (presumably for political gain in an election year). It allowed the WHO to perform a poor, biased site visit that misled the world, as the CCP tightly limited what investigation they could perform. This entire sad saga of information warfare highlights the need to limit the blind trust we put in journalists, news industry, and fact checkers. We should be especially wary of those who seek to censor views that are unpopular, disagreeable, or speculative.