The long-awaited drop of “the Fauci Files” has begun on Twitter. With the breakup between Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk, this edition of the Twitter Files was researched and written by Paul D. Thacker (who of course, has his own Substack – Elon really screwed up during that entire fiasco).

But back to Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom we had already learned had a devoted cult within pre-Musk Twitter. Thacker references that within his reporting, but also highlights that Fauci was not entirely forthcoming when it came to his non-use or use of Twitter.

3) Fauci made similar claims, during multiple exchanges, in a 7-hour deposition, where he denied using Twitter or even knowing how to access a tweet. pic.twitter.com/SdWEp9dIYV

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023

Here is Fauci saying to Andrea Mitchell last December that he doesn’t have a Twitter account and he doesn’t tweet, just so you can hear the words coming from his mouth.

Well, it turns out that Fauci did tweet. Whether or not HE was the person using the platfor, is something of a semantic issue – was a much younger, tech-savvy person scribing for him and sending out the tweets? – but as Thacker reveals, Fauci did take control of the @WHCOVIDResponse account on two separate occasions.

5) According to this tweet, Fauci took over the White House COVID-19 Response account again, in April 2021. pic.twitter.com/QbxLw0Kcx4

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023

I know this is meant to be a “GOTCHA!” moment, but it feels unfinished. That’s it? Yes, it’s a stupid thing for Fauci to lie about, mostly because it is so easy to find record of him “using” Twitter.

Good afternoon, all. I’m Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of @NIAIDNews and chief medical advisor to the President. I will be taking over for the next hour or so to answer your questions about COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/zWlQN92Xpi

— White House COVID-19 Response Team (@WHCOVIDResponse) April 22, 2021

If there isn’t more to the story between Fauci and Twitter, then this is pretty much a dud. The employees were definitely all in on the Fauci cult, and Fauci was set up to use Twitter a couple of times, but that doesn’t exactly rise to the level of hype that the teasers had promised. Is there more to come? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

The real bombshell of the story is the pharma angle, not the Fauci angle. It turns out that Twitter was working hand-in-glove with “Big Pharma” and businesses to take down COVID “misinformation,” and Johnson & Johnson specifically when it came to a “messaging strategy” to push COVID vaccines. Johnson & Johnson also got the opportunity to market products more broadly on Twitter itself.

10) In December 2020, Twitter announced they would begin removing and labelling tweets that contained vaccine "misinformation" especially concerning COVID-19 vaccines. pic.twitter.com/jmZTca5CUJ

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023

12) By the summer of 2021, Johnson and Johnson began a full court press to market a ton of their products on Twitter, including a controversial antidepressant. pic.twitter.com/H2ylxyJkaF

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023

THIS feels like it should have sirens and red flags all over it. After all, Johnson & Johnson had a monetary interest in “shaping” the narrative around COVID vaccinations, as one of the three authorized vaccines in the United States, and the only one that was billed as a “single shot.” But Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine ended up with a significant problem of causing blood clots in younger women, and those blood clots ended up killing people. Twitter working with Johnson & Johnson is a HUGE problem because in one of those cases – the death of Jessica Berg Wilson in King County, Washington, from “COVID Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia” after getting the J&J shot – Twitter slapped a “misleading” label on the OBITUARY. They later removed it, but only after a lot of attention was drawn to their attempt to call Wilson’s cause of death into question. And to learn ONLY NOW that Johnson & Johnson was ACTIVELY working with Twitter to “market” their vaccine and remove “misinformation”??? This is horrific. Whose decision was it at Twitter to label Wilson’s obituary as “misleading,” and did ANYONE at Johnson & Johnson suggest/work with/encourage Twitter to put that label on the account of her death??? If Johnson & Johnson was actively involved at Twitter at the same time it was trying to market their vaccine, and Twitter was actively SUPPRESSING DAMAGING INFORMATION about that same vaccine, then I want to know!

Thacker promises “more to come,” but unless he has bigger goods on Fauci, then forget it. The real meat of the story is going to be in the cozy relationship that Twitter developed with Big Pharma, and the businesses that benefited from the COVID vaccines, especially if the narrative was crafted to downplay or deny any risks involved. Who put the “misleading” label on Jessica Berg Wilson’s obituary? Find whoever made that call, and there may be a whole ‘nother ball of yarn to unravel for the Twitter Files.

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