With emails mentioning masks, the pandemic response and the ‘lab-leak theory’, the emails caused commotion online
Earlier this week, thousands of pages of email exchanges involving Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci were released in accordance with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from BuzzFeed reporter Jason Leopold. The timing is uncanny, as Fauci’s forthcoming book was announced and subsequently rescinded by Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Beyond that, the Wuhan “lab-leak theory” dismissed by Fauci and the media as conspiratorial last year has suddenly resurfaced as plausible, with the Biden administration looking to further investigate the origins of SARS-Cov-2. [emphasis added]
Critics have inaccurately characterized these emails as “leaked” evidence of various pandemic conspiracies.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. stoked the flames similarly over the released emails. On June 2 she tweeted, “After reading through Anthony Fauci's leaked emails, it's more clear than ever that our country needs to #FireFauci.
However, the very premise of this reasoning is false: The emails weren't leaked.
Earlier this week, thousands of pages of email exchanges involving Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci were released in accordance with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from BuzzFeed reporter Jason Leopold. The timing is uncanny, as Fauci’s forthcoming book was announced and subsequently rescinded by Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Beyond that, the Wuhan “lab-leak theory” dismissed by Fauci and the media as conspiratorial last year has suddenly resurfaced as plausible, with the Biden administration looking to further investigate the origins of SARS-Cov-2. [emphasis added]
Critics have inaccurately characterized these emails as “leaked” evidence of various pandemic conspiracies.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. stoked the flames similarly over the released emails. On June 2 she tweeted, “After reading through Anthony Fauci's leaked emails, it's more clear than ever that our country needs to #FireFauci.
However, the very premise of this reasoning is false: The emails weren't leaked.