Author and journalist Glenn Greenwald on Thursday said that he thinks the main issue revealed by Anthony Fauci’s recently published emails is the contrast between how the infectious disease expert presented COVID-19 information publicly versus how he said he felt in private and how that affected public discussions about the pandemic.
“The problem I have is that there were clearly narratives that Dr. Fauci was presenting as being definitive or conclusive or highly likely that in private he was suggesting were anything but,” Greenwald said of Fauci’s publicly revealed emails while appearing on Hill.TV’s “Rising.”
Some of the emails revealed that Fauci had been in discussion with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to possibly make videos for the social media giant’s COVID-19 information hub.
“The question about the emails between him and Mark Zuckerberg are most interesting to me because social media ended up playing a big role in restricting the debates that we were permitted to have about the pandemic, based on proclamations of certainty from people like Dr. Fauci and the World Health Organization that proved to be completely unwarranted,” Greenwald added.
“I think that’s really the scandal,” Greenwald said. “It’s not that there were clear answers to these questions that Fauci knew and lied about, but that the level of certainty that the scientific community had about these questions was nowhere near what they claimed.”
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