Facebook lifts ban on user comments about COVID-19 being man-made after Biden orders intel agencies to probe whether coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 27 2021 | ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

[knighthawk]

Facebook will allow users to claim on its platform that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China - a reversal of its previous policy which banned comments suggesting the coronavirus was man-made.

The move comes after Fauci changed his tune on where the virus may have originated - and after Biden ordered his intelligence agencies to launch a probe into whether it leaded from a Wuhan lab.

'In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps,' the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.

[kiryandil]

Zuckerpuke should be clubbed into insensibility.

[HYPOCRACY]

Facebook is asshoe.

[FrdmLvr]

I believe the fix is in on this one. Once Biden’s intelligence agencies find it wasn’t created in a Wuhan lab, that will be the end of the discussion. They’ve probably written the report already.

[Erik Latranyi]

I agree.

The whitewash is coming.

[snarkytart]

These people are dogmatic like a cult.

[Adder]

So when were they wrong? Then or now?

We had a chance to fix this crap in 2017 and the pubbies blew it. These platforms could have been regulated and they were not because the pubbies were too weak to do it.

Get off Facebook and Twitter.

[T.B. Yoits]

Facebook’s ban and then lift of the ban show that it’s a content provider, not just a content carrier, and as such it needs to have any Section 230 protections removed.

[BeauBo]

The current truth has been updated by the Party.

All repeat.

[KarlInOhio]

How 1984 of them. COVID was released from an Eastasian lab. COVID was always released from an Eastasian lab. Now for the daily Three Minute Hate against Donald Trump. (why 3 minutes? Because the Two Minute Hate from the book just isn’t long enough.)

[BenLurkin]