Media scolded, lampooned for dismissing now-likely COVID lab leak theory as misinformation

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Media scolded, lampooned for dismissing now-likely COVID lab leak theory as misinformation
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The press was scolded Sunday after the U.S. Energy Department reportedly assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China.

New York Post reporter Jon Levine responded to an MSNBC host who blamed the theory being dismissed because it was"conflated by the right" during the Trump administration.

"Latest example of why ‘just ban misinformation’ isn’t so easy. Who gets to decide what is misinformation? What happens when new facts come to light? Ditto mask effectiveness, ditto natural immunity. All things labeled obvious misinfo; all now revisited," ABC News reporter Sarah Isgur wrote. National Mouth editor Tim Young asked,"How many more times will the ‘conspiracy theorists’ end up being right?"

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