Musk’s sarcastic adoption of new “pronouns” further enraged critics who have accused him of turning Twitter into a toxic and unsafe platform.
- He later confirmed that he was referring to Fauci, the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, denying before Congress that his agency funded “gain of function” research in Wuhan, China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began.
- Also Sunday, Fauci told CNN he became “public enemy number one of the far-right” by refusing to be “complicit” in former President Donald Trump’s spreading of misinformation about the coronavirus.