{"id":1641231,"date":"2022-09-14T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641231"},"modified":"2022-09-14T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:05:01","slug":"fauci-says-hes-handed-over-documents-for-big-tech-censorship-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-says-hes-handed-over-documents-for-big-tech-censorship-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Says He\u2019s Handed Over Documents for Big Tech Censorship Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-says-hes-handed-over-documents-for-big-tech-censorship-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-anthony-fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a> said Sept. 14 that he and his staff members have handed over all responsive documents to a lawsuit alleging the U.S. government colluded with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-big-tech\">Big Tech<\/a> to censor social media users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have handed and my staff have handed over every document that the Department of Justice has asked for, and it\u2019s up to them to make it available, but I have held nothing back from anything that I was asked to provide,\u201d Fauci said during a Senate hearing in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/2-gop-led-states-sue-biden-administration-for-pressuring-and-colluding-with-big-tech-to-censor-free-speech_4449673.html\">filed the suit in May<\/a>, and the first tranche of discovery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html\">returned evidence of collusion<\/a>, including emails between the federal officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the White House and officials at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-facebook\">Facebook<\/a> parent company Meta, Google, and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Absent from the release were any messages from Fauci and just a few involving officials at the agency he directs, the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because government lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/many-of-faucis-emails-with-zuckerberg-should-be-shielded-from-lawsuit-government-says_4705309.html\">asserted<\/a> most of Fauci\u2019s communications should be shielded. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, the Trump appointee overseeing the case,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-orders-fauci-other-top-officials-to-produce-records-in-big-tech-government-censorship-lawsuit_4714820.html\">disagreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, the requested information is obviously very relevant to Plaintiffs\u2019 claims. Dr. Fauci\u2019s communications would be relevant to Plaintiffs\u2019 allegations in reference to alleged suppression of speech relating to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19\u2019s origin, and to alleged suppression of speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns,\u201d Doughty said.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ordered the government\u00a0on Sept. 6 to produce the requested Fauci records to plaintiffs within 21 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny communications that are made in that regard as far as I\u2019m concerned are an open book and available,\u201d Fauci said during the Senate hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice and NIAID did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p> Personal Cell Phone <\/p>\n<p>Fauci has acknowledged that he was in contact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sept. 14 that he and his staff members have handed over all responsive documents to a lawsuit alleging the U.S. government colluded with Big Tech to censor social media users. \u201cI have handed and my staff have handed over every document that the Department of Justice has asked for, and it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}