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Facebook lifts ban on posts claiming Covid-19 man-made as Wuhan theories surge (politico.com)
19 points by itbeho on May 27, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


https://massivesci.com/articles/sars-cov-coronavirus-covid19...

"One hypothesis requires a colossal cover-up and the silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials for over a year. The other requires only for biology to behave as it always has, for a family of viruses that have done this before to do it again"

But hey, at least Facebook is being consistent when it comes to garbage sources and conspiracy theories.


>One hypothesis requires a colossal cover-up and the silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials for over a year.

One hypothesis merely requires the above in a state known for disappearing or genociding the politically inconvenient, which reduces down to humans having a self-preservation instinct.

People seriously discount the incentive of life/freedom extension through abstinence from poking large predators.


"silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials".

Question for you: if we this state is so good at "disappearing or genociding the politically inconvenient", then how do we know they are doing it? Wouldn't a state that is actually effective at that kind of cover-up also be able to cover up the evidence of the cover-up?


I think this is a prime example of the "narrative engineering" done by Facebook. Before, the narrative was supposed to be X (e.g. no Wuhan leak) and now it's Y (it's Ok to think/talk about Wuhan leak). Who controls the narrative? We don't know, but presumably special interest groups with direct influence over Facebook senior management?


The obvious takeaway here is understanding the risks of restricting speech to only that which conforms to an Authority.


No, the obvious takeaway is that Facebook thinks it can make enough money stoking fear, uncertainty, and doubt to make the PR black eye worth it.


lol they're not going to get a PR black eye from this. All of bluecheck Twitter is now singing the same "maybe Covid did come from the Wuhan lab after all!" tune. It's pretty clearly now an Officially Approved Narrative.

Why the narrative masters have made this sudden shift remains to be seen. Maybe to distract from all the evidence pointing to SARS-CoV-2 originating somewhere else than Wuhan and earlier than October 2019.




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