[Retric]

Making specific claims without evidence is Fake News because you’re saying you have evidence that X is true when you don’t.

“COVID-19 COULD have leaked from a lab” is perfectly fine. Saying “COVID-19 leaked from a lab” requires evidence or it’s not news even though you claim it is thus the label “Fake” news.

[largbae]

I agree with your premise here, but both of these topics were censored to the point of removing accounts that discussed them under the assumption that they were fake news. This is the problem with censoring anything.

[Retric]

That’s fair.

I don’t have any specific solutions for fake news. My interest is more in how the internet and society is evolving rather than what to do about it.

[tanseydavid]

>> “COVID-19 COULD have leaked from a lab” is perfectly fine.

IIRC -- in 2020 any mention of such an idea was met with accusations of racism.

[Retric]

I’ve rarely seen people bring up racism when talking about the lab leak idea in general.

Distrust of the CCP doesn’t link to racism in most western eyes because they don’t differentiate between different Asian groups as distinct races. Race is basically just White, Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native American, and maybe Pacific Islanders.

[account42]

What about saying “COVID-19 did not leak from a lab”?