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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 4889417" data-attributes="member: 55299">The Washington Post on Tuesday corrected a 2020 article which criticised Republican Sen. Tom Cotton for defending the claim that the COVID-19 virus may have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan China.The article had described the claim as &quot;debunked&quot; and a &quot;conspiracy theory.&quot;<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The original headline of the February 2020 story read: &quot;Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked&quot; </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The headline was corrected on Tuesday to read: &quot;Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.&quot;</li>
</ul>In a note explaining the corrections, editors wrote: &quot;Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The term &#039;debunked&#039; and The Post&#039;s use of &#039;conspiracy theory&#039; have been removed because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 4889417, member: 55299"] [I]The Washington Post on Tuesday corrected a 2020 article which criticised Republican Sen. Tom Cotton for defending the claim that the COVID-19 virus may have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan China. The article had described the claim as "debunked" and a "conspiracy theory." [/I] [LIST] [*][I][B]The original headline[/B] of the February 2020 story read: "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked" [/I] [*][I][B]The headline was corrected[/B] on Tuesday to read: "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed."[/I] [/LIST] [SIZE=5][I]In a note explaining the corrections, editors wrote: "Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus. The term 'debunked' and The Post's use of 'conspiracy theory' have been removed because,[B] then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus[/B]."[/I][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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