According to a new investigative report , Chinese government officials and state media are exploiting loopholes in major search engines such as Google, YouTube, and Bing to push pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conspiracy theories about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. According to The Alliance for Securing Democracy, the communist propaganda machine has focused on claims that the novel coronavirus did not originate in Wuhan, the city in central China where the first cases appeared, but at a laboratory in the U.S. military base of Fort Detrick, Maryland. The report, released Oct. 5, found that Chinese state…