{"id":148278,"date":"2021-01-06T03:25:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebooks-covid-coverup\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T03:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:25:27","slug":"facebooks-covid-coverup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebooks-covid-coverup\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook’s COVID Coverup"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Facebook<\/a>’s COVID Coverup<\/strong>”
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New York magazine\u2019s latest cover story, \u201cThe Lab-Leak Hypothesis,\u201d concludes that COVID-19 is a human-engineered virus that escaped from a Wuhan lab \u2014\u00a0the very same theory that moved Facebook to suppress a Post opinion piece for weeks last year. <\/p>\n

Steven W. Mosher only called it a possibility in these pages on Feb. 23, 2020. But Facebook quickly moved to suppress the column as \u201cFalse Information\u201d \u2014\u00a0and wouldn\u2019t unblock it until April 17. Bet that a left-leaning magazine won\u2019t have the same trouble.<\/p>\n

Nicholson Baker\u2019s feature goes into great length<\/a> on issues Mosher touched on. Baker believes the virus \u201cwas made more infectious\u201d in the laboratory, \u201cperhaps as part of a scientist\u2019s well-intentioned but risky effort to create a broad-spectrum vaccine,\u201d and accidentally escaped.<\/p>\n

Mosher expressed less certainty in \u201cDon\u2019t buy China\u2019s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab,\u201d but noted (among other facts) China\u2019s shoddy lab-safety record, the quick trip<\/a> of Beijing\u2019s top biowar expert to Wuhan as the pandemic began and cases in which researchers sold monkeys and rats on the live animal market after experimenting on them.<\/p>\n

Yet Facebook \u201cfact-checkers\u201d put a \u201cFalse Information\u201d alert on the column and blocked posters\u2019 friends from reading it for themselves \u2014\u00a0never mind his careful caveats and The Post\u2019s own clear \u201copinion\u201d label on the piece. Still, media figures accused The Post of spreading a \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker spoke to a number of scientists who said their first thought on hearing of the outbreak was \u201clab accident.\u201d But once President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested the virus began in a Chinese lab, many deemed it \u201cimpermissible, almost taboo,\u201d to agree. And experts called for comment were themselves often engaged in \u201cgain-of-function research\u201d that manipulates deadly viruses \u2014\u00a0and didn\u2019t want to lose their funding if the public turned against it. Indeed, one expert Facebook relied on had regularly worked with Wuhan\u2019s researchers and done experiments in their lab.<\/p>\n

As Baker writes, \u201cWe still know very little about the origins of this disease.\u201d Right: China doesn\u2019t want the world to know \u2014 and American media, social and otherwise, have helped Beijing bury the story.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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