Possibly because over a hundred million links were repressed by Twitter and Facebook for this.
Or because people who spoke up about received every kind of pushback - firing, demotion, smears, even death threats.
That Trump posed it as a likelihood means nothing in comparison to millions of posts getting flagged, shadowbanned, repressed and completely wiped. You get that, right?
The theory (and even wilder ones, like COVID being a bioweapon) were reported all through 2020 on Fox News and other media sources. It wasn't a silent theory. There were a lot of crazier theories about China manufacturing COVID as a bioweapon, which got lumped into the "Lab Leak" bucket.
Or because people who spoke up about received every kind of pushback - firing, demotion, smears, even death threats.
That Trump posed it as a likelihood means nothing in comparison to millions of posts getting flagged, shadowbanned, repressed and completely wiped. You get that, right?