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The United States Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would require the Biden administration and the director of national intelligence to declassify intelligence about the origins of the coronavirus.

Facebook will allow users to claim on its platform that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China - a reversal of its previous policy which banned such comments.

Republicans are blasting Facebook for its sudden turnaround after the company announced it would no longer remove posts that claim COVID-19 is man made.

President Joe Biden pledged to release the report on the origins of COVID-19 that he asked intelligence agencies to work on for the next 90 days.

Mark Zuckerbergs top media advisor Nick Clegg, the former MP and Liberal Democrat leader, has also been branded feeble by critics for allowing months of censorship on the social network.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz criticized New York Times science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli on Thursday Mandavilli had sparked outrage by tweeting: Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots The reporter, who mainly covers the coronavirus, swiftly deleted the tweet   In a second tweet she said the original was badly phrased and said her colleagues are investigating lab leak theory  Cruz joined the outcry, writing: She just isnt willing to investiga...

Facebook fact-checkers from Science Feedback have repeatedly defamed media outlets with whom they have political disagreements. PJ Media demands an apology.

The man who led the State Departments task force probing the origins of coronavirus revealed his colleagues deliberately downplayed links of the virus inception to Chinas Wuhan lab.

House Rep. Warren Davidson (right), a Republican from Ohio, on Tuesday proposed the FIRED Act - whose acronym stands for Fauci (inset) Incompetence Requires Early Dismissal.

Anthony Fauci on Tuesday appeared before a Congressional budget committee Fauci defended the spending of $600,000 on the Wuhan laboratory  Scientists now believe it is possible that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab Fauci said the money, to be spend over five years, was modest He denied again that the cash was spent on gain of function research The controversial experiments make viruses more deadly or transmissible  On May 11 Fauci and Rand Paul sparred over how the U.S. funding was spent F...