Agence France-Presse, San Francisco, 11th) The world's richest man Musk called on Twitter today (Twitter) to sue the outgoing White House chief epidemic prevention expert Anthony Fauci (Anthony Fauci), and even made fun of people who made statements about gender pronouns. caused a strong backlash.
"My personal pronoun is sue/Fauci," Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted, alluding to the practice of putting a gender pronoun after a person's name and right-wing groups accusing Fauci of involvement in COVID-19 in the US (2019 Coronavirus Disease) Epidemic Prevention Policy Related Offenses. Fauci, 81, will step down in December as the president's chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he has held since 1984.
Musk also uploaded a meme picture, showing Fauci leaning over to the ear of US President Biden and saying to him, "Block it again, my king..." This is obviously referring to Musk's repeated criticism but it has been more than a year COVID-19 mitigation measures not implemented in the United States. Musk, who tweeted early on in the outbreak that concerns about the virus were "stupid," has removed its policy against the spread of COVID-19 misinformation since he took over.
Musk's tweet was reposted frantically and received more than 900,000 likes in about 14 hours, but it also quickly sparked criticism. Vaccine scientist and author Peter Hotez called on Musk to delete the tweet. "200,000 Americans died from COVID for nothing because of this anti-science rhetoric and disinformation," he said.
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar praised Fauci for "calmly leading our country through this crisis," and told Musk, "You seem to be endlessly seeking attention. Can you let a good guy go for that? ?” But Musk has the admiration of those on the right. Republican Senator Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was suspended from Twitter for spreading misinformation about COVID, tweeted after her account was reinstated under Musk: "Elon (Musk's name) ), I recognize your pronoun."
