Big tech giants like Facebook and Twitter are now well and truly the self appointed “Orwellian” arbiters of the truth “regardless of the facts,” said Sky News host Rita Panahi, after Facebook decided to reverse its policy last week and stopped banning posts, which suggested COVID-19 was man-made and released from the lab in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic started.
The idea was considered a conspiracy theory and false by pro China Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg’s wife is Chinese), which meant it would ban posts pushing or even mentioning the idea, and punish the poster.
The Wuhan lab leak theory however has gained renewed traction in recent weeks in mainstream media, which saw scientists express openness to the idea, with Joe Biden himself ordering an urgent investigation.
Skynews’ Ms Panahi said the way in which the tech giants like Facebook conduct their platforms is “Orwellian” because “They decide what’s true and what’s n
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