Twitter users have been pressing new CEO Elon Musk about whether he will release for the promised “Fauci Files” on the platform.
“The week’s almost up. Where are they?” one person wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.
TWITTER’S FAUCI FAN CLUB: MUSK POINTS FINGER AT STAFF MESSAGING GROUP
@elonmusk promised us #faucifiles this week .. it’s Saturday tik tik ⏰
— Brooke Rash (@BrookeRash) January 7, 2023
“@Elonmusk promised us #faucifiles this week .. it’s Saturday tik tik,” a woman wrote on Twitter with the emoji of an alarm clock.
#FauciFiles The week’s almost up. Where are they? pic.twitter.com/JXRngBtqx3
— AngeY (@cannychad) January 7, 2023
Musk on Sunday pledged that he would release the “Fauci Files” sometime “later in the week.”
Later this week
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2023
The new Twitter boss has been releasing the “Twitter Files” since he took over the company last October, and he has compared the platform to a “crime scene” amid leaking files from the platform showing various government actions to pressure social media executives to censor and suspend Twitter accounts.
In December, Musk had hinted his views of the chief medical adviser who had led the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk said on Twitter. He later joked with a meme showing Fauci telling Biden, “Just one more lockdown, my king.”
Following Musk’s announcement previewing the release of the “Fauci Files,” he has been mercurial in posting tweets asking whether he’s beginning to shoot himself in the foot with his involvement in U.S. politics.
He posted one poll asking: “Elon Musk should” with the options of “stay out of politics” or “keep shooting his feet.” More than half (57%) of respondents encouraged him to keep doing the latter.
He followed up with another curious tweet, “If I dig my grave deep enough, maybe it comes out other side of Earth.”
In December, Musk reinstated numerous accounts, including mRNA technology scientist Dr. Robert Malone and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, who questioned the government’s handling of the pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines.
Musk later revealed that Twitter staffers “had an internal Slack channel unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club.’”
During a deposition on Nov. 23 in a social media censorship lawsuit brought by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, Fauci was asked if he knew anyone who worked for any social media platforms. He noted that he was in communication with Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his daughter Alison Fauci who worked as “a software engineer for Twitter.”
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When conservative commentator Charlie Kirk had tweeted this development about Fauci’s daughter working for the tech giant, Musk had replied, “Small world.”