What you say is correct, I don't think Facebook could have done differently. The young progressive people who work at and own Facebook couldn't have seen it an

What you say is correct, I don't think Facebook could have done differently. The young progressive people who work at and own Facebook couldn't have seen it any other way. This is exactly why censorship is dangerous and that's why name calling people who disagree with you is dangerous. This politicisation and polarisation is extremely dangerous to the scientific method. The end result is that when I see a conspiracy theory, a news article or a "fact-check" I have no clue whether that's true or not. Reading the original source is the best you can do but it's more time consuming and it still has a chance to miss on other original sources which could paint a different picture. In this specific instance, I can't make any excuses. I think just reading the sources would have been enough to think the lab leak stories could have been true. There were reports of researchers sick in Autumn 2019 and the epicentre just happened to be incredibly close to a research lab studying coronaviruses.