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FOIA release of 3,200+ pages of Fauci emails ('#FauciEmails')
BuzzFeed News published more than 3,200 pages of Fauci's early-2020 emails obtained via FOIA lawsuit (the Washington Post separately published 800+ pages); '#FauciEmails' trended for days. The most-recirculated item was Fauci's Feb. 5, 2020 email to Sylvia Burwell advising store-bought masks were 'not really effective.' Critics read the release as evidence of a public/private gap on masks and origins; defenders and fact-checkers noted the emails were consistent with his contemporaneous public statements and reflected fast-evolving evidence.
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