With Fauci conspiracy theories swirling from Trump supporters, the doctor predicts up to 200,000 U.S. deaths
of Fauci tilting his head down and touching his forehead while standing behind Trump went viral when some took Fauci’s body language as a sign of exasperation because the president had just referred to the State Department as the “Deep State Department.”
After that March 20 briefing, the hashtags #FauciFraud grew in popularity. Conservative groups began publishing anti-Fauci posts, which were then promoted on public social media platforms, private Facebook groups, YouTube videos and far-right online talk shows. Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington who has studied misinformation told the, “There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of Trump supporters to spread misinformation about the virus aggressively.”
Luckily for Americans, somehow, Fauci seems to be taking the smear campaign, the pandemic, and a fact-adverse president in stride.
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