Zuckerberg offered user data reports to Fauci to help shape lockdown policies

In April 2020, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci help in “facilitating” decisions regarding lockdown measures in the US, shows private emails exchanged between the two.

Zuckerberg’s offer referred to aggregating “anonymized” user reports that would help NIAID decide whether to tighten or loosen lockdown mandates.

The emails, which The National Pulse says it has obtained exclusively, show Zuckerberg willing to put Facebook’s gigantic user data trove at NIAID’s disposal in this “user reports” form, and came a month after the pair started communicating directly – a revelation stemming from another batch of government-redacted emails Zuckerberg and Fauci sent to each other in March 2020.

In the email dated April 8, Zuckerberg explains that he wants to help Fauci and his organization “facilitate” decisions and “prioritize” the right work. He mentions that Facebook already had something called a symptom survey aimed at providing indicators of cases by county, and in this way let the tech giant “inform public health decisions.”