A surprising number of those citations are calling out zerohedge for promoting the "right wing conspiracy threory" that Covid leaked from a lab...
"Scientists Haven’t Found Proof The Coronavirus Escaped From A Lab In Wuhan. Trump Supporters Are Spreading The Rumor Anyway." Buzzfeed April 22 2020.
[31] "The role of technology in online misinformation"
[7] "Who 'Created' Covid?"
[11] "How social media platforms are fighting coronavirus misinformation"
[28] "MAGA speech clashes with coronavirus misinformation crackdown"
[54] "Twitter bans Zero Hedge after it posts coronavirus conspiracy theory"
[3] "Conceptualizing "Dark Platforms". Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab"
Here's a direct quote from that last one:
> ZeroHedge is infamous for making controversial commentaries on socio-political issues; during the pandemic, its Twitter account was suspended for propagating conspiratorial claims that blamed the Wuhan Institute of Virology for creating the novel coronavirus.
E.g. #11
>The most high-profile instance came when Twitter permanently suspended the account of Zero Hedge, a far-right site that purports to share finance and economic information, for circulating a theory blaming one Chinese scientist, without evidence, for creating COVID-19.
Is not the same as 'covid leaked from a lab.'
The argument was over whether Covid-19 evolved naturally and was spread to humans from a colony of wild bats or was engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was subsequently leaked. The leak theory was, in those unenlightened times, considered "right wing propaganda".
This is the article in question if you care to read it: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/man-behind-global-coronavir...
The article says that the outbreak probably originated from the lab, and this is the guy that is capable of engineering it. It then goes on to list papers he published and research he was involved in. That list of papers, and the job posting cited in the article coupled with the geographic origin of the infection being colocated with the lab sure look like evidence to me. Circumstantial evidence, sure, but evidence all the same. Talk about mischaracterization.