Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right - The New York Times
[snip] An analysis by The New York Times found over 70 accounts on Twitter that have promoted the hashtag #FauciFraud, with some tweeting as frequently as 795 times a day. The anti-Fauci sentiment is being reinforced by many on the right including outspoken Trump supporters such as Brit Hume and Sara Carter.
Many of the anti-Fauci posts, some of which pointed to a seven-year-old email that Dr. Fauci had sent praising Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of State, have been retweeted thousands of times. On YouTube, conspiracy-theory videos about Dr. Fauci have racked up hundreds of thousands of views in the past week. In private Facebook groups, posts disparaging him have also been shared hundreds of times and liked by thousands of people, according to the Times analysis.
One anti-Fauci tweet on Tuesday said, “Sorry liberals but we don’t trust Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
The torrent of falsehoods aimed at discrediting Dr. Fauci is another example of the hyperpartisan information flow that has driven a wedge into the way Americans think.
“There is this sense that experts are untrustworthy, and have agendas that aren’t aligned with the people. It’s very concerning because the experts in this are being discounted out of hand.”[/snip]
(mine) This is the first I've read about the right-wing conspiracy/mis-information campaign aimed at Dr. Fauci. It's more than just shameful and dangerous for this man, it's dangerous for everyone in the country because it makes legitimate scientific and medical information less believable to Trump supporters. That's going to result in deaths.