Well lookie here. One of Facebook’s main “fact checkers” quietly, without fanfare retracted one of their “pants on fire” ratings regarding COVID-19 and the Wuhan lab. While it’s still not 100% established that the COVID 19 virus leaded from the Wuhan lab, more and more pieces are coming together to make it at least a possibility. That’s why PolitiFact had to retract. Of course this got absolutely zero media coverage. Instead, Politifact claims the report about the Wuhan Lab “is widely disputed”. I wonder if they will do a real fact check about Fauci funding that same Wuhan lab?
Andrew Kerr at the Daily Caller reported that PolitiFact posted an Editor’s Note on May 17 quietly retracting a “Pants On Fire” it gave to Tucker Carlson last September for a supposedly “debunked conspiracy theory” about the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China.
At the very least, this underlines how embarrassing it can be to light your judgmental “pants on fire” on speculation about something controversial that is still unknown. The note reads:
Editor’s note, May 17, 2021: When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated. That assertion is now more widely disputed. For that reason, we are removing this fact-check from our database pending a more thorough review. Currently, we consider the claim to be unsupported by evidence and in dispute. The original fact-check in its entirety is preserved below for transparency and archival purposes. [Emphasis added.]