Ben is imploring Media Watch to apologise to Sharri Markson.

Ms Markson reported in April 2020: “Intelligence agencies are understood to be looking closely at two senior scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and “whether the naturally-occurring virus may have been inadvertently released from a level four laboratory in Wuhan.”

The host of Media Watch Paul Barry responded saying “Conspiracy theories like this are so hard to kill.”

“Media Watch spent two nights trying to discredit her research,” Ben said.

This comes after Ben has been rejected from volunteering at the ABC next week.

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