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Can Fauci be 'sentenced to the electric chair'?

Observador26 August 2026 at 17:21

Six years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to be the target of hundreds of posts on social media, particularly on Facebook, where false claims circulate that he could be sentenced to death, in a reference to the death penalty. The article analyzes the persistence of these disinformation narratives surrounding Fauci, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the United States and a central figure in the American pandemic response, and verifies whether there is any real basis for these alarmist claims that continue to circulate online.

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