PolitiFact, for example, on May 24 quietly retracted a September 2020 fact check that labeled a Hong Kong virologist’s claim that COVID-19 originated in a lab as a “debunked conspiracy theory.”

The American Thought Leaders program cited in that article is excellent. They discuss censorship with regards to COVID at length and speculate on why it's happening, with on motive simply being money.

It's an outstanding interview and Weinstein comes off as a balanced, objective, rational person who is just asking the logical questions, among them why the scientific method is not being followed in academia or government and why any discussion of anything the least bit threatening to the pharmaceutical industry is now censored by all power centers in our society.

He's clearly not anti-vax, clearly pro-science. This is a very tame, reasonable interview, and yet it would likely be banned from YouTube and Facebook. What's going on? And the US is celebrating July 4. So much for independence and free speech!