Because during the pandemic, the major media outlets dismissed it as a conspiracy theory and completely shut down conversation on the topic. The New York Times

Because during the pandemic, the major media outlets dismissed it as a conspiracy theory and completely shut down conversation on the topic. The New York Times claimed this theory was "debunked". Fact checkers claimed this was "pants on fire" lying. For months, Twitter suspended accounts sharing the lab-leak theory, because they were "spreading misinformation". The past few weeks, all the above parties did a complete about-face, with no apology. Vox silently edited one of its March 2020 articles "debunking" claims that Covid-19 originated in a lab leak https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994 . The fact that the mainstream media can so effectively censor a theory against the prescribed narrative is extremely harmful to our democracy. It makes you question what other narratives being pushed today are similarly misguided.