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Covid Lab Leak Theory Gains Traction
Will scientists and doctors who’ve had their research censored by U.S. media and tech companies be getting an apology?
In September, 2020, it was no surprise to learn that Twitter had suspended the account of a Chinese virologist who had begun accusing the Chinese Communist Party of manufacturing COVID-19 in a Wuhan laboratory.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, had her Twitter account taken down after she claimed to have proof that the COVID-19 virus was created in a Wuhan laboratory.
The Twitter account has remained down ever since, and a message on the page even now reads: “Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.”
When asked last year why Dr. Yan’s account was suspended and what rules it violated, a Twitter spokesperson had no comment.
During an interview with Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, Yan told Carlson that she was suspended because, “they don’t want the people to know this truth.”
“The scientific world also keeps silent… works together with the Chinese Communist Party, they don’t want people to know this truth. That’s why I get suspended, I get suppressed. I am the target that the Chinese Communist Party wants disappeared.”