How the Corporate Media Launched a Disinformation Campaign to Protect Fauci

By now you ve surely heard about Anthony Fauci and his laboratory beagles, but in case you haven t, it goes like this: For forty years, Fauci, as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has funded gruesome experiments on animals. Beagles in particular are one of the favored species for these experiments, because of their docile and people-pleasing nature, which makes for less hassle for the humans who subject them to pain and suffering. In one of these NIAID-funded experiments, in Tunisia, sedated beagles heads were put into mesh bags with swarms of starved sand flies, who fed on the live dogs.

The other thing you may have heard is that the story is just another right-wing conspiracy theory. You may have heard this from The Washington Post, from any of a number of self-proclaimed fact checkers, or maybe even from the globally renowned Beacon of Honesty David Frum of The Atlantic.

I ve been reporting on this story for the past few weeks. In fact, I ve been reporting it as closely as anyone, if not more so. It s been an extremely educational experience for me, but not because I was unfamiliar with the industry of animal experimentation, or NIAID s leading role within it. What s been educational is seeing up close and first-hand how the mainstream media constructs and deploys a brazen misinformation campaign.

via outsidevoices.substack.com

Beagles are cute and Fauci is not.