I think it's because they read it as some kind of admission of a conspiracy by the liberal media to stamp out this story. I actually covered the lab leak story on my show back in June. So we don't run away from it, but I have a longer memory than most people I would like to think. And I haven't forgotten 2020. Donald Trump standing in front of crowd, shouting, kung flu,. Peter Navarro saying that Chinese Communist Party created it in a lab and sent Chinese people to infect the rest of the world. It's always been plausible that it leaked out of a lab, but it was always a natural disease. No one ever claimed it was no serious
Kara and Scott discuss Tesla’s “Master Plan 3,” and TikTok's new time limits. Also, the world of Twitter competitors is growing with Jack Dorsey’s new app Bluesky joining the ranks. Plus, the COVID-19 lab leak theory got a heated boost this week. Friend of Pivot Mehdi Hasan joins to help us definitively decide whether or not Kara’s Chevy Bolt is sexy.
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