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Facebook was today accused of 'showing its true and ugly colours' and smothering free speech as it scrapped its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made - but only after Joe Biden ordered the CIA to probe if the virus came from a...

Facebook was accused of smothering free speech when it only reversed its policy on Wednesday after Joe Biden ordered the CIA to probe if the virus came from a Wuhan lab.

Joe Bidens team ended a State Department investigation into Wuhan lab  The investigation was begun by Mike Pompeos allies in fall and ran until spring One of those involved in probe said no evidence showed virus came from bats  David Asher was part of State Department arms control and verification bureau  He said his team found no evidence coronavirus came from animals  Bidens team in February or March decided to end their research  Critics of the effort said it was overtly political and ...

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...

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.