but there s one section that didn t receive as much attention as the rest . media luded detailess about how media organizations and big tech, including formerg employees of the department of justice, agreed to working iof n concert to protect joe biden against damaging storiesn again this all happened at the aspen institute in august of 2020, labeled a tabletop exercise on combating disinformation, it quickly morphed into smothering a perfectly legitimate story. now, due to new emails given to us by shellenberger, we know the effort was organized by vivian schiller, former npr president and former twitter global chair of news. and once we started pullingwc the thread of which journalists and social media employees were involved, we found other past association that should raise eyebrows. first is nathaniel leiker,ad o current head of cybersecurity policy at facebookcybers, formef the department of justice. and these two, andrew grado and janine zakharia, both fromfh sta
dazik ahead of the covid pan. that group gave six hundred thousand dollars of that money to the wuhan institute of th virology. the institute at the center of the lab leak theory. while the angle was demanding answers on the lab leak theory, far back in 2020, wey were labeled conspiracy theories. r and as recently as november ofen this past year, dr. fauci was still just dismissing it as improbable. there it s possible thatis there s a lab leak, but if you look at the viruses that the nih funded ,it was a very small grant. $12 one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty thousand dollars0, $130,000 per year, of granting a year of granting to study bat viruses in a surveillance wayha to see what s out thers e. if you look at those viruses and you look at the what is done with the viruses, it would be essentially molecular impossible for those viruses to turn into sars-cov-2.