Comment by aeternum

Both administrations (Trump 2016 + Biden) adopted the guidance of Fauci and others at the NIH/NIAID more or less directly. So the guidance came through the administrations but originated with the NIH/NIAID.

You had direct statements like this from scientific experts, those experts turned out to be the middleman group that was funding Wuhan via NIH grants.

Peter Daszak, a zoologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance, who has been among the most vocal critics of the idea of a lab leak, wrote, “I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Given an expert statement like that, youtube can and did take down lableak videos because they were misinformation (contrary to the information provided by the experts).