From The Daily Wire: If anything has highlighted just how much Big Tech now controls our public discourse, it is the pandemic. Suddenly, any stray expression of irritation at mask mandates or casual mention of doubt in the all-knowing pronouncements of our health overlords will have the social media censors turning their attention toward you like the Eye of Sauron…

The following four examples of social media giants censoring what turned out to be accurate information prove why they shouldn’t be in charge of fact-checking the public.

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The Lab-Leak Theory

Early in the pandemic, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins began hearing from dozens of scientists offering evidence that Covid did not, as initial reports claimed, originate naturally from a Chinese wet market. But while Drs. Fauci and Collins were warned of the potential that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Collins appeared to dismiss what came to be known as the “lab leak theory” as a “conspiracy.”

In March 2020, Collins huffed that, “Some folks are even making outrageous claims that the new coronavirus causing the pandemic was engineered in a lab and deliberately released to make people sick…”

When it was clear, a few months later, that support for the lab leak theory was growing in the scientific community (or, at least, more scientists were willing to speak up and admit it had been an eminently reasonable supposition all along), Facebook reversed its ban.

The Covid Vaccine and Menstrual Cycles

One of the earliest banned Covid subjects on social media was suggesting vaccines might adversely affect fertility. The concern over whether a new medical treatment can impact a woman’s ability to bear children is a serious one, especially when there hasn’t been time to conduct long-term research. These worries ramped up as women began anecdotally sharing that the Covid vaccine was affecting their periods…

Turns out, their stories weren’t so crazy after all. A study released two weeks ago found that Covid vaccinations can disrupt women’s menstrual cycles. Often not by much, but a delay is a delay.

As another recent study, funded by the NIH itself concluded, we still don’t have conclusive long-term proof that Covid vaccines have no impact on fertility. The best the researchers could offer was, “It is unlikely that adverse effects on fertility could arise many months after vaccination.”

Masks

YouTube followed suit in August by suspending Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), another doctor, who said the platform banned him for seven days for a video that quotes peer-reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work.

One of the statements YouTube pointed to in justifying its decision? Paul’s comment that, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection.”

Except, shocker, the gentleman from Kentucky was on to something, as even the CDC now acknowledges they don’t prevent infection nearly as well as advertised. The agency quietly updated its guidelines on Jan. 14, conceding that “loosely woven cloth coverings” provide the least protection compared to higher-quality N95 and KN95 masks.

Natural Immunity Offering More Protection Than Vaccines

Twitter permanently banned Dr. Robert Malone for “repeated violations of our Covid-19 misinformation policy” after he told podcaster Joe Rogan that natural immunity provides much greater protection against the virus than the vaccine. Then in September, Instagram reportedly banned the hashtag #naturalimmunity.

Lo and behold, the latest studies show that natural immunity was much more effective than vaccines in protecting against reinfection during the recent Delta wave.

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