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Originally Posted by Firebot
People seriously underestimate the power of state propaganda and censorship.
Unfortunately, politics became the controlling factor.
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At the same time, I think you're underestimating how US government and intelligence community propaganda emanates from CNN and other mainstream American media. The CNN examples you quote are a great example. Last year it was a conspiracy theory, but now after the US intelligence community "leaked" some information of extremely dubious quality and accuracy (that had already been reported on months ago), they're happy to change their tune because they act as an uncritical mouthpiece for the intelligence apparatus.
We saw it with Russia where evidence of questionable veracity from "anonymous intelligence sources" was used to concoct some of the more ridiculous stories about Russia stealing the election for Trump. And now that tensions between the US and China are continuing to ramp up, things that were labeled as wacko conspiracy theories are all of the sudden more acceptable to mainstream US news organizations because they help support American hegemony.
As for the origins itself, I think this article lays it out fairly well though it obviously suffers from some of the same weaknesses mentioned above:
https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.c...y-f4f88446b04d
The lab theory is absolutely plausible and would explain some missing evidence and the lack of closer relatives of SARS-COV-2 being found in nature. But at the same time, there is absolutely no credible direct evidence behind that theory and no one has suggested that there's any clear evidence of the virus showing signs of manipulation. So what are we left with?