Matt Bush, FISM News
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Elon Musk promised in December that Twitter would release what have become known as the “Fauci Files,” and Thursday he followed through.
Paul Thacker, a journalist that specializes in science and medicine, released the files in a string of 16 tweets. Some of the highlights of those tweets will be discussed below, but the strand begins with the following tweet.
1) Twitter Files #FauciPharmaFiles
Last December, @elonmusk sent out his viral tweet about Fauci.
Fauci went on Fox News and said he had "no clue what [Elon] was talking about." pic.twitter.com/L0RIZVRsEO
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023
In December, Musk tweeted, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” as he took a shot both at Fauci and the way in which pronouns are being used in the LBGTQ world.
“I have no idea what he’s talking about, Neil. I wish I did. I mean, I just — I’m clueless about what he’s referring to,” Fauci responded when asked by Fox News host Neil Cavuto about Musk’s tweet.
Later on in the interview, Fauci went so far as to say that not only was there no collusion with Twitter, but that he did not even understand the platform or even have an account.
“So a lot of people are spouting out a lot of things about me and Twitter. I don’t have a Twitter account,” Fauci said. “I have never had a Twitter account. I don’t intend on having a Twitter account. And I have had nothing to do with Twitter. So I don’t know what they’re talking about when they say that, Neil. I just don’t. I’m puzzled.”
The documents presented by Thacker on Twitter not only refute Fauci’s claim of not understanding Twitter, it even shows that Fauci, on multiple occasions, took over Twitter accounts related to COVID-19.
4) But in an internal Twitter report in March 2021, the company revealed "Dr. Anthony Fauci did an account takeover for @WHOCOVIDResponse."
This runs contrary to Fauci's public statements and sworn deposition given on Nov 23, 2022. pic.twitter.com/SbeKnNOJRx— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023
Fauci’s Twitter presence went even further than account takeovers. Musk revealed that Twitter employees, prior to Musk’s purchase of the company, created a Slack Channel entitled the “Fauci Fan Club,” and that members of this page treated Fauci’s “guidance” as truth for the platform.
Another piece of information highlighted by Thacker is that a former Twitter attorney was “one of the attorneys Fauci interfaced with on ‘disinformation’ at Twitter,” calling him “the leading trusted voice about the COVID-19 response in the United States.”
7) Attorney Angela Sherrer, who left when Musk sought to buy Twitter, praised Fauci as "the leading trusted voice about the COVID-19 response in the United States." pic.twitter.com/TCY5h4cj30
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023
Aside from Twitter working with Fauci, Thacker also claims that there was collusion between “Big Pharma” and the social networking giant.
“Twitter didn’t just rely on the voices of prominent physicians like Fauci. Oddly enough, they also worked with Big Pharma companies and pharmacy chains to shape vaccine marketing campaigns,” Thacker wrote.
Thacker also contends that Twitter worked with Johnson and Johnson and CVS both to promote what they considered “approved narratives” and to take down what they considered “misleading vaccine information.”
10) In December 2020, Twitter announced they would begin removing and labelling tweets that contained vaccine "misinformation" especially concerning COVID-19 vaccines. pic.twitter.com/jmZTca5CUJ
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023
According to the Post Millennial, these marketing campaigns and the removal of content by Twitter for Big Pharma led to partnerships between Twitter and drug makers like Johnson and Johnson.