In a humiliating blow, the Washington Post has been forced to walk back its earlier claims that the Wuhan lab leak theory was a “debunked conspiracy theory.”
The far-left outlet published an article in February 2020 proudly labeling the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “debunked conspiracy theory” – but has now been forced to issue a retraction.
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“Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus,” states the retraction.
“The term “debunked” and the Post’s use of “conspiracy theory” have been removed because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.”
Summit.news reports: The correction was made after independent journalist Michael Tracey “reported that journalist @paulina_milla had flagrantly mischaracterized a key expert she quoted in the article.”
The Post becomes the latest in a growing list of media outlets and ‘fact checkers’ that have been forced to walk back their insistence that the lab leak theory was an impossibility.
Last week, Facebook announced that it was reversing a policy that banned posts which claimed COVID-19 was “man-made” just months after asserting that the theory had been “debunked.”
Politifact was also forced to pull a ‘fact check’ that claimed it had “debunked” the lab leak origin theory of COVID-19.
Washington Post journalist Glenn Kessler faced ridicule after being forced to admit the lab leak theory was “credible” after previously attacking Senator Ted Cruz for circulating it.
However, some are still ludicrously clinging on to other ways to dismiss the whole issue, with the New York Times’ Apoorva Mandavilli tweeting last week that it was “racist” to discuss it at all.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Let’s see them reveal that the NIH funded it and that it was a joint operation between australian.amerucan a d Chinese drs ,all of who are nit nationalists but all believe they’re too advanced for such primitive tribal concepts as nationalism or national identity.
Just to let any so-called journo know that if you want to de-bunk a theory you have to do some actual journalism. When they do, they actually uncover facts. Shocking I know!