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Facebook reverses policy, allows posts claiming Covid-19 was made in a lab
Facebook announced it would be nixing posts that contained false information about the coronavirus vaccines, it reported further.Posts containing false claims about "safety, efficacy, ingredients or side effects" were added to the list of already banned content, which included more general coronavirus misinformation.Recently, the theory that coronavirus escaped from a laboratory gained some traction in Washington, resulting in President Joe Biden announcing a ramped-up effort to confirm how the virus originated."As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including specific questions for China," Biden said in a statement."I have also asked that this effort include work by our National Labs and