Former employees at Twitter had an internal messaging channel titled the “Fauci Fan Club,” according to the social media platform’s new boss, Elon Musk.
The tech magnate revealed his discovery in a Twitter thread late Tuesday night in which Mr. Musk castigated the White House’s former COVID-19 advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Mr. Musk accused Dr. Fauci of being dishonest about his role in gain-of-function research, a type of laboratory manipulation that is thought to have helped develop the novel coronavirus and make it more potent to humans.
“Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club,’” the Twitter CEO wrote.