Birdwatch Note Rating
2022-06-16 03:07:01 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 8E9096B7E6E4E974B420CCA85B6428EF38EB42D93D17DAE48B11C7E1BB1D457F
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Original Note:
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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