Twitter CEO Elon Musk has responded to a post on the platform that appeared to push back on claims that outgoing White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his post as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has never been untruthful or dishonest.

Entrepreneur and moderate Republican backer Marc Andreessen posted a tweet that contained a screengrab supportive of Fauci which said it is neither "accurate or fair" to claim that Fauci "has ever lied," to which Musk posted a link to a congressional .pdf file of a Newsweek story headlined, "Fauci Was 'Untruthful' To Congress About Wuhan Lab Research, New Documents Appear to Show."

The September 2021 report noted: "The National Institute of Health (NIH) has denied funding studies that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans after it was accused of doing so following the release of research proposals. The documents were obtained and released by The Intercept on Tuesday after it launched a FOIA lawsuit. Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, told Newsweek these documents show "unequivocally" that NIH grants were used to fund controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Insitute of Virology in China—something U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied."