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Twitter gives up fight against COVID-19 misinformation

DS999 Silver badge

Presenting the lab leak as fact

Is still misinformation. Saying "no one has been able to prove the lab leak theory is false" is true, but likely no one will ever be able to prove exact origin of it anymore than we can prove the exact origin of AIDS or the 1918 flu pandemic.

You can try to portray this as a gray line where you have to allow discussion, but the people pushing misinformation are way over that line. They are presenting lab leak as fact. They are presenting "getting the vaccine is much more likely to kill you than not getting it" as fact. They are presenting "the vaccine is part of a mass sterilization campaign" as fact.

They aren't trying to toe a line and getting slapped down for stepping slightly over it. They are leaping several miles over the line and then whining "but muh free speech!" when a misinformation warning is attached to their post that's left in place. Twitter is (was) merely exercising THEIR right to free speech by attaching a misinformation warning.

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