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2022-06-16 05:34:11 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 27F08FFC4E3438DC564ABF02B6BE068F30597F331617B0249467D099B1310CF1
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This is a joke about Anthony Fauci contracting Covid. Shouldn’t need a note, but here we are. The joke references a theory that gain of function research causes the outbreak, and the contested belief that Fauci, among other world scientists propagated this research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/29/repeated-claim-that-fauci-lied-congress-about-gain-of-function-research/
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