Perspectives: Dr. Fauci’s Emails
Summary from the AllSides News Team
NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci became the focus of media attention again on Tuesday after The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News published thousands of pages of his emails, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Washington Post obtained 866 pages from March and April 2020, and BuzzFeed News obtained 3,234 pages from January to June 2020. In one email, Fauci said he received “over 1000 e-mails per day and even with staff screening, I do not see them for days." On Thursday, Fauci addressed the coverage of his emails, saying, “The only trouble is they are really ripe to be taken out of context where someone can snip out a sentence in an email without showing the other emails and say, ‘based on an email from Dr. Fauci, he said such-and-such,’ where you don’t really have the full context.”
Voices in right-rated outlets tended to accuse Fauci of “flip-flopping” or covering up evidence, and focused on emails regarding the COVID-19 lab leak theory. Voices in left-rated outlets tended to defend Fauci and point to the reported tensions between Fauci and the Trump administration.
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