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Will there be fallout for social media fact checkers, who moderated out users' observation and hypothesis which matched the new consensus? Also, 'there had bee

Will there be fallout for social media fact checkers, who moderated out users' observation and hypothesis which matched the new consensus? Also, 'there had been a "premature push"' is very passive language. Who pushed? I wish the AP published on the web so that they were able to hyperlink to original source material or their transcript. Edit: I guess the old consensus must be buried.

djrogers 5y ago
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic-c0c594f9060f676c0ea48c2d1c69daec https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-scien... AP Does publish on the web...
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- Urgo 5y ago
  NPR wins on the permalink though. I was going to link someone the apnews version but changed to the npr one due to the url. NPR: who-chief-wuhan-lab-covid-19-origin-premature-tedros AP: joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic AP is just stuffing keywords in there.
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Simulacra 5y ago
Depends on who you ask. For some, because Trump lost, the fact checkers, media, etc. were justified in burying the lab leak theory because in doing so was a "resistance" to trump.
jjeaff 5y ago
What new consensus? There is no new or old consensus, and this article does not indicate otherwise. The one thing that has consensus from early on is that the virus is not man made. However, that did get muddied and confused with the possibility of a lab leak. In other words, lab origin is not the same thing as lab leak. It is, however, wrong and harmful to suggest it was a lab leak without evidence. And that is what a lot of social media people were saying at the time. It's also not wrong to hypothesize that it could have been leaked from a lab. But most of the stuff I saw being censored or fact checked was not presented as a "possibility".

djrogers 5y ago

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic-c0c594f9060f676c0ea48c2d1c69daec https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-scien... AP Does publish on the web...

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Urgo 5y ago
NPR wins on the permalink though. I was going to link someone the apnews version but changed to the npr one due to the url. NPR: who-chief-wuhan-lab-covid-19-origin-premature-tedros AP: joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic AP is just stuffing keywords in there.

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Simulacra 5y ago

Depends on who you ask. For some, because Trump lost, the fact checkers, media, etc. were justified in burying the lab leak theory because in doing so was a "resistance" to trump.

jjeaff 5y ago

What new consensus? There is no new or old consensus, and this article does not indicate otherwise. The one thing that has consensus from early on is that the virus is not man made. However, that did get muddied and confused with the possibility of a lab leak. In other words, lab origin is not the same thing as lab leak. It is, however, wrong and harmful to suggest it was a lab leak without evidence. And that is what a lot of social media people were saying at the time. It's also not wrong to hypothesize that it could have been leaked from a lab. But most of the stuff I saw being censored or fact checked was not presented as a "possibility".