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Facebook HIRED Peter Daszak as a 'factchecker' and allowed him to REMOVE anything that suggested the virus came from a lab.

As somebody who probably incited/funded/created covid19, he was heavily incentivized to hide this crime.

Facebook ENABLED this coverup

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> Facebook HIRED Peter Daszak as a 'factchecker' [..]

Worse, Daszak was also part of WHO-led international mission[0] to investigate the origins of the pandemic(!!) in early 2021, though he eventually recused himself in June 2021[1]

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

Did Facebook ever actually hire Peter Daszak? My understanding is that Facebook censored posts which contradicted his infamous Lancet letter (and that's bad enough) but I haven't seen evidence of Facebook paying him or giving him editorial control.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655057/Facebook-fa...

> As somebody who probably incited/funded/created covid19, he was heavily incentivized to hide this crime.

> Facebook ENABLED this coverup.

Wat? How is this not considered a conspiracy theory? 5 comments down an article that discusses fact checking...

Hm, maybe my sarcasm-meter is off by a notch again. dunno.

It hasn't been considered a conspiracy theory since the CSPAN video from 2016 surfaced showing him talking about paying someone in China to make killer viruses.

It's at the following link, at about the 1 hour 17 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AksKoMZon6Y

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