Comment on: Banned from AskReddit for citing an official United States Government statement.
I don’t agree with the ban, but I think I can help you understand how it is misinformation. That House Committee report, itself, is propaganda. They brought in some baseless information, disregarded information that didn’t fit, and dropped context to make a political argument. It’s sad, but that is how the house committees work these days.
There was plenty of valid information in the hearings. And there is a lot to learn from many of the witnesses. But what ACTUALLY happened in those hearings was that some people repeated conspiracy theories, and others speculated on how it could be true,but nobody brought any evidence forward to support the claim.
I don’t know whether Covid started in a lab or not. I also know that nobody in that hearing knows, either. But the Republicans spun a report to validate their voting base’s biases. It is misinformation, and being a government report doesn’t change that unless it provides evidence.
So I don’t know the comment you posted this in. But if you took this report, and repeated it as factual information, you shared misinformation. Should that be ban-worthy? I don’t think so. I don’t think this is harmful misinformation. Nobody gets hurt by imagining different origins for the virus. But at least you should know WHY it’s misinformation
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20 Feb 2024 02:29
u/jadnich
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