I often reference the Babylon Bee, which is a good humor / news parody site along the lines of The Onion. If you can’t tell whether their stories are true or not, that’s reality’s fault for being so screwy these days.
My recent post on most recent of several academic papers discussing the virus’s possible lab origin was a direct link to the actual paper on a preprint archive. The connection to Bannon is just fodder for the headlines - it’s not like he wrote it. The main connection here is that Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire in exile and with no love lost for the Chinese party, has a foundation that helps support and assist people in China and Hong Kong including those trying to escape persecution. This was how the virologist escaped to the US; this article covers some of her story of departure, family consequences and personal issues around that.