Twitter's Fauci fan membership: Musk factors finger at workers messaging group

Twitter staff had an inner messaging group nicknamed “Fauci Fan Membership,” referring to the nation’s controversial prime infectious illness professional, 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 by no means lied whereas working in his place because the chief medical adviser to the president. Musk linked to a Newsweek article that cited paperwork displaying Fauci was “untruthful” in his claims that the Nationwide Institutes of Well being has by no means funded gain-of-function research within the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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“Some good nuggets in [this] article. Necessary to notice that Fauci authored [a] 2012 paper arguing for gain-of-function analysis! Obama correctly put this on pause, however Fauci restarted it,” Musk tweeted Tuesday evening. “Regardless of these obtrusive points, Twitter nonetheless had an inner Slack channel unironically known as ‘Fauci Fan Membership.’”

It’s not clear what conversations have been held within the messaging channel or what number of Twitter workers have been included in it. However Musk stood by his claims, inviting the social media platform so as to add content material notes or corrections to his thread.

Musk has lengthy criticized Fauci for his dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic, significantly for the lockdown measures imposed within the early phases. The Twitter CEO has additionally urged Fauci needs to be criminally charged, posting a tweet in mid-December that his “pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”

Fauci has served because the director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses since 1984 earlier than being appointed because the White Home’s chief medical adviser in 2021 beneath President Joe Biden. Fauci introduced in August he would step down from authorities service this month.

Since Musk’s takeover of Twitter this 12 months, staff have been cautious of messages they've despatched by means of their firm emails and message boards, with some stories indicating that they began deleting Slack messages out of worry. Musk terminated a number of staff who criticized him on social media in November.

He has since introduced he would step down as Twitter’s CEO after one in every of his personal polls on the platform voted him out. It’s not clear who the billionaire will select as his successor or when he plans to resign.