Twitter’s Fauci fan club: Musk points finger at staff messaging group
Cami Mondeaux
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Twitter employees had an internal messaging group nicknamed “Fauci Fan Club,” referring to the country’s controversial top infectious disease expert, Elon Musk claimed in a tweet on Tuesday.
In a Twitter thread, the social media platform CEO responded to a tweet claiming Dr. Anthony Fauci has never lied while working in his position as the chief medical adviser to the president. Musk linked to a Newsweek article that cited documents showing Fauci was “untruthful” in his claims that the National Institutes of Health has never funded gain-of-function studies in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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“Some good nuggets in [this] article. Important to note that Fauci authored [a] 2012 paper arguing for gain-of-function research! Obama wisely put this on pause, but Fauci restarted it,” Musk tweeted Tuesday night. “Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club.’”
It’s not clear what conversations were held in the messaging channel or how many Twitter staff were included in it. But Musk stood by his claims, inviting the social media platform to add content notes or corrections to his thread.
Musk has long criticized Fauci for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the lockdown measures imposed in the early stages. The Twitter CEO has also suggested Fauci should be criminally charged, posting a tweet in mid-December that his “pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”
Fauci has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 before being appointed as the White House’s chief medical adviser in 2021 under President Joe Biden. Fauci announced in August he would step down from government service this month.
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Since Musk’s takeover of Twitter this year, employees have been wary of messages they have sent through their company emails and message boards, with some reports indicating that they started deleting Slack messages out of fear. Musk terminated several employees who criticized him on social media in November.
He has since announced he would step down as Twitter’s CEO after one of his own polls on the platform voted him out. It’s not clear who the billionaire will choose as his successor or when he plans to resign.