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Google also pinned the first result for any query about the WIV to an article claiming that there was no way whatsoever the virus came from there.



That’s awful, I hope they are thoroughly embarrassed.


Google have been manipulating search results for years, putting their fingers on the scale both in terms of censorship and boosting of results.

When you control weights behind search results and news articles, you quite literally control the flow of information.

Google is an actively malicious company, and this was not done with good intentions. Anti-science rhetoric by Dr Fauci, the WHO and the mainstream media establishment was never based on any evidence other than politicized opinion.

Dr Fauci was vehemently against closing the border with China in January 2020. He was vehemently against masks. He was vehemently against lab leak theory (calling it "impossible"). He falsely claimed the Wuhan Institute of Virology was not doing gain-of-function research.

These are malicious acts which have a real cost. The cost is human life. How many additional people died on the back of his anti-mask rhetoric in March?




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