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Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records

Attorney General James Uthmeier seeks documents on alleged self-dealing during Fauci's tenure leading the US Covid response

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What this story says

  • Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a formal subpoena to Anthony Fauci on 29 May 2024, seeking records related to his tenure leading the US pandemic response.
  • The subpoena targets alleged self-dealing, though no specific financial figure is cited in the reports.
  • Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a Senate hearing last week, as reported by right-rated outlets.
  • No left- or centre-rated outlet carried this story, according to the reports available.

Who covered it

Left 11%(3)Centre 25%(7)Right 64%(18)

Percentages are shares of the 28 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 12 of the 40 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

68/100

Craft

52/100

Hype

45/100

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Missing from the left

Only 3 of the 28 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a formal investigative subpoena to Anthony Fauci on 29 May 2024. The subpoena seeks records related to what Uthmeier’s office described as potential self-dealing during Fauci’s tenure as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Uthmeier announced the subpoena in an interview on Fox News.

The subpoena follows a Senate hearing last week in which Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times. Republican Senator Rand Paul led the hearing and warned Fauci during the proceedings. The reports do not specify which documents the subpoena requests or what specific allegations it addresses beyond self-dealing.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention whether Fauci or his representatives responded to the subpoena. No left- or centre-rated outlet carried this story, according to the reports available.

Coverage settled. We checked this 136 times and stopped on 12 Aug 2026, 02:46. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

3 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the left coverage of this story. The left-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Centre

7 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the centre coverage of this story. The centre-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Right

18 rated outlets

  • Both right-rated digests led on the subpoena as a response to Fauci’s refusal to answer questions during the Senate hearing. American Faith’s digest framed the subpoena as an investigation into self-dealing during Fauci’s leadership of the pandemic response. American Wire News’s digest highlighted Fauci’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment over 100 times, quoting Senator Rand Paul’s warning to Fauci during the hearing.
  • Neither digest mentioned a specific financial figure tied to the allegations. The focus was on the subpoena itself and Fauci’s conduct during the Senate hearing. Both digests attributed the subpoena’s announcement to Uthmeier’s interview on Fox News.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records?
Of the 28 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 11% are rated left, 25% are rated centre, 64% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 40. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 28 rated outlets on this story, 11% are rated left, 25% are rated centre, 64% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records biased?
Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records is one event reported by 40 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 Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records?
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 Florida subpoenas Fauci over pandemic records?
40 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 is the Florida subpoena about?
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to Anthony Fauci on 29 May 2024, seeking records related to alleged self-dealing during his leadership of the US pandemic response. The subpoena follows Fauci’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a Senate hearing last week.
Did Fauci respond to the subpoena?
The reports available do not mention whether Anthony Fauci or his representatives have responded to the subpoena issued by Florida’s Attorney General. The focus of the coverage is on the subpoena itself and Fauci’s conduct during a recent Senate hearing.
Which outlets covered this story?
Two right-rated outlets, American Faith and American Wire News, carried digests of the story. No left- or centre-rated outlet reported on the subpoena, according to the material available.

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Right

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