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Actual headline: "Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media" (Also previously submitted by georgecmu and dsr12, but ad

• matheweis 5y ago
  Personally I am in favor of this editorialized title. The lab leak hypothesis has been discussed a great deal here recently, I think it makes sense that yet another article covering the background wouldn’t surface. On the other hand, Reddit banning what now seems to be an important discussion, is a kind of newish and interesting part of the story - especially as it intersects with the broader topic of bans etc as it applies to many companies (see the tank man discussion here yesterday, for example). The relevant bit of the story (quoted my haltingproblem here), was a new bit of information and the part that seems worth the discussion. Did reddit make the right call then, or did they suppress an important conversation?