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Allegations that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied” about COVID‑19 cluster around three themes: statements on masks and herd immunity, funding/oversight of Wuhan research and “gain‑of‑function,” and claims abou...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the COVID‑19 pandemic drew a wide spectrum of criticisms ranging from allegations of promoting a preferred origin narrative to complaints about shifting public‑health g...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s book "The Real Anthony Fauci" accuses Dr. Anthony Fauci of decades-long , suppressing dissent, enabling pharmaceutical influence, and mishandling both the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19...
President Biden issued a large, final-day clemency package that included for a mix of family members, senior public officials, and participants in congressional inquiries, alongside a broad set of com...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, as director of NIAID and a senior U.S. public health official during the Obama administration, did not personally visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 as some viral images ...
Claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci “lied about COVID” concentrate on three threads: alleged concealment of U.S. funding or oversight of Wuhan research, tactical communications about masks/herd immunity, an...
The claim that Dr. Anthony Fauci personally funded the "Wuhan Institute of neurology" finds in the materials provided for this analysis; none of the supplied documents link Fauci or NIAID grant funds ...
Congressional committees—principally the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Oversight Committee—have released a mix of subpoenaed internal emails (notably from longtim...
No congressional committee or official inquiry in the supplied reporting has concluded that Dr. Anthony Fauci intentionally misled the public; the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has compiled a mix of documentary references, media reports, grant records, emails cited by others, and witness statements to support his accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci; h...
President Biden issued several high-profile clemency actions in mid‑January 2025: he pardoned five individuals (including Marcus Garvey posthumously) and commuted the sentences of two individuals on J...
The shorthand claim "Fauci knew" refers to multiple contested assertions: that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew the U.S. funded coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that he knew such work ...
Fact‑checkers and independent reporters have repeatedly found that many viral claims about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic statements were misleading, taken out of context, or false, while also documenti...
Candace Owens used her Twitter platform to amplify a range of anti‑vaccine narratives during the COVID‑19 pandemic, including personal vows never to be vaccinated, attacks on public‑health figures and...
President Joe Biden used his clemency powers extensively in his term—issuing large-scale commutations (including a Jan. 17–19, 2025 surge) and pardons for individuals and groups such as thousands with...
Multiple outlets and critics accuse Dr. Anthony Fauci of specific falsehoods during the COVID-19 pandemic—most commonly claims about masks, herd immunity thresholds, and NIH funding of Wuhan research—...
President Biden issued thousands of acts of clemency during his term — including blanket proclamations pardoning people convicted of certain federal marijuana offenses (October 2022 and December 2023)...
The debate over whether SARS‑CoV‑2 originated in nature or via a laboratory incident in Wuhan remains contested in public and political forums; by April 2025 the U.S. White House retooled COVID.gov to...
Fact‑checkers have repeatedly found that many widely circulated summaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments were misleading because they clipped quotes, omitted context, or conflated separate remarks — ...
President Biden’s earliest, most publicized acts of clemency combined large-scale commutations for non-violent offenders with a small number of high-profile pardons and preemptive protections, accordi...