According to a Fox News Digital report, former CNN President Jeff Zucker ordered staff to ignore the "lab leak" theory because it was exaggerated.
Former CNN president Jeff Zucker ordered network employees not to investigate the Covid-19 lab leak theory because he considered it a "Trump talking point," a "well-placed" CNN insider told Fox News Digital on Monday.
The 'theory' was recently bolstered by a Department of Energy finding that a lab-leak was the most likely origin for the virus, while FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed last week that his agency believes the same.
"People are slowly waking up from the fog," the insider told Fox. "It is kind of crazy that we didn't chase it harder."
Throughout Zucker's tenure as CNN's chief, he pulled what was once widely seen as a straight-news organization to an anti-Trump operation. CNN bent over backwards to knock down what former President Trump and members of his administration said lending credibility...
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