That they spend so much time, effort and tax payer dollars against it but turn a blind eye to Meta and Google, among others, is certainly telling. 

A data broker would never give the PRC the kind of information that a company in their own country that they can control can. Data brokers wouldn't track or spy on individuals.

The deliberate release claim is a strawman designed to stop discussion about the evidence that COVID was created in a lab. The validity of that is widely accepted and even Anthony Fauci admits that it's credible. (Dismissing it as a racist theory has also been done.) Looking at the facts, it appeared in Wuhan, more than 600 miles from it's known source in bats. The only near sources were government labs, one, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), had a history of lax standards and was trying to make the coronavirus more virulent with gain of function (gof) research. There's no evidence of an intermediate animal carrier or an intermediate form that is more virulent in animals than humans. It appeared optimized to infect humans, with a furin cleavage site that was highly unlikely to evolve naturally and which the WIV had proposed adding to the coronavirus in a proposal. It may have been an accidental release, but there's evidence that China let the rest of the world suffer along with them by letting foreigners return to their countries while restricting domestic travel.