Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research

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How did the left and right cover Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research?

Of the 9 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 0% are rated centre, 100% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 10. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.

Is Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research left or right?

Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 9 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.

Is the coverage of Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research biased?

Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research is one event reported by 10 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.

Which side is not reporting Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research?

When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.

Which outlets covered Fauci ordered aide to delete email about bird flu research?

10 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.

What did Dr. Anthony Fauci instruct his aide to do with an email in 2012?

Newly disclosed documents show Dr. Anthony Fauci instructed an aide to permanently delete an email from 2012. He specifically wrote, 'Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file.'

What was the subject of the email Dr. Fauci wanted deleted?

The email concerned gain-of-function research, specifically experiments that made a strain of bird flu transmissible through the air. These experiments were conducted by Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier with funding from Fauci's NIAID.

What did Dr. Fauci say about journalist Phil Boffey in the email exchange?

Dr. Fauci wrote to then-NIH Director Francis Collins that journalist Phil Boffey was 'off base' and acting like a 'mischievous guy' regarding the gain-of-function research. He later complained that Boffey was 'swallowing' what people were telling him.