From Censor to Conspiracy Theorist: Zeynep Tufekci Promotes the Wuhan Lab Lie - World Socialist Web Site

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From censor to conspiracy theorist: Zeynep Tufekci promotes the Wuhan Lab lie - World Socialist Web Site: 

EXCERPT:

The publication of Tufekci’s report follows the discrediting of two leading advocates of the conspiracy theory.

In a widely cited June 1 article, the World Socialist Web Site brought attention to the fact that Michael R. Gordon, whose Wall Street Journal article led every major US newspaper to declare the lab leak theory “credible,” was the co-author with Judith Miller of the September 8, 2002, article in the Times falsely asserting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking to build a nuclear weapon.

On June 6, the World Socialist Web Site drew attention to the fact that Nicholas Wade, cited by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post as an authority on the lab-leak theory, is a serial falsifier and advocate of racist pseudo-science.

Since the publication of these articles, neither Wade nor Gordon has been cited by name in the New York Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal in connection to the “Wuhan lab” theory.

Now in their place has stepped Zeynep Tufekci, a “Techno-sociologist,” to attempt to salvage the discredited lab-leak theory pioneered by Trump’s fascistic counselor Steve Bannon and a number of Chinese multimillionaire exiles.