Facebook suspends user 30 days for posting about COVID lab leak theory: In April, a Twitter user posted screenshots of their Facebook censorship notice over the COVID-19 Chinese lab leak theory. The post that was censored read: "It is highly likely that Covid-19 was engineered in a US-funded virology lab in Wuhan, China, which it then escaped from. The Chinese Communist Party is not allowing a genuine investigation into this matter, so we'll never know for sure." Facebook said that this violated its "community standards on misinformation about COVID-19," and suspended the user's account for 30 days. The rest of the notice read: "we encourage free expression, but don't allow false information that has been repeatedly debunked." Shortly after the 30 day suspension was up, the lab leak theory has gained traction and is now considered a genuinely plausible theory, with Politifact "archiving" its fact check of the story, and Facebook officially announcing that it will no longer suppress posts about the theory.