Steven Menashi

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Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Shortly after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, rumors started to circulate that the virus that triggered it came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. This story was quickly rejected by expert institutions and mainstream media outlets as an empirically baseless and even racist conspiracy theory — a verdict propagated through social media by fact checkers who deemed such claims to be misinformation.