Big Tech spent 2020 deciding which doctors Americans were allowed to hear.
A Wyoming congresswoman just tied newly released pages straight to the man running the pandemic response.
One line from Fauci's newly released diary has Rep. Harriet Hageman naming names on the censorship machine that buried a rival doctor.
Fauci Diary Reveals He Knew The COVID Death Rate Was Far Lower Than What He Told The Public
Rep. Harriet Hageman laid out the case in a Daily Caller op-ed this week, and the core evidence comes straight from Fauci's hand.
His diaries show he privately pegged COVID's death rate at a fraction of the number he told the country — privately writing 0.2 to 0.3 percent while telling a national television audience the figure was two to two and a half percent.
"Attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science," Fauci said 18 months into the pandemic, brushing off any American who questioned him.
Hageman doesn't buy the humble-scientist routine.
She writes that Fauci's diaries expose him as a man "so shamelessly desperate for the spotlight he crashed the country with lockdowns, school closures, and societal self-destruction."
Fauci denies he ever served as a government censor.
Hageman's work on the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government says otherwise.
Big Tech Censorship Buried The Great Barrington Declaration On His Say-So
The clearest case study is the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 letter from three world-class epidemiologists calling for "focused protections" instead of blanket lockdowns.
Fauci called it "nonsense and very dangerous."
Emails between Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins show the two men working to discredit the declaration's authors as "fringe epidemiologists."
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the three authors, later told Congress that Facebook deleted the declaration's page immediately after publication.
Reddit pulled links to it from COVID discussion forums.
Google buried it in search results and redirected users to hit pieces instead, Bhattacharya testified.
Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford credentialed those three doctors – and Silicon Valley deleted them anyway before most Americans ever read a word they wrote.
Fauci told Americans to mask up, then doubled the requirement to two masks, then reversed himself again once he was vaccinated.
Twitter suspended a sitting White House task force doctor for questioning mask efficacy.
YouTube pulled a Florida roundtable featuring Gov. Ron DeSantis, claiming it broke with "the consensus of local and global health authorities."
The "consensus" was one man's opinion, enforced by companies that answered to his phone calls.
Hageman's Bill Lets Americans Sue The Censors Directly
Hageman has legislation moving that would let ordinary Americans hit back.
Her First Amendment Accountability Act would give citizens the right to sue federal employees who violate their free speech rights – no more hiding behind agency immunity while bureaucrats lean on tech platforms from the shadows.
She's paired it with the Preventing AI Censorship Act, introduced in June, which extends the same right of action to the next generation of the problem: federal employees pressuring AI companies to filter, distort, or surveil Americans based on their views.
"The First Amendment does not have an AI exemption," Hageman said when she introduced the bill.
Her committee's December 2024 report found the Biden administration was already funding AI censorship tools and pressuring developers to suppress content before Fauci's diaries ever surfaced – proof this wasn't a one-time pandemic panic but a standing playbook.
Without real legal consequences, the next public health scare gets the same treatment.
One bureaucrat decides the narrative, and Big Tech locks the door behind him.
"Americans risk suffering under another lockdown regime where mass isolation becomes worse than the virus itself," Hageman warns.
The diaries didn't just catch Fauci in a number.
They caught the machine that deleted three credentialed doctors from the internet and told America the science was settled – and Hageman's bill is the first real chance to make the next bureaucrat who tries it answer for it in court.
Sources:
- Rep. Harriet Hageman, "Fauci Diaries Expose Dangers Of Censorship Industrial Complex," The Daily Caller, July 29, 2026.
- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Prepared Statement to Congress, March 27, 2023.
- "Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill to Hold Federal Employees Accountable for AI Censorship," Congresswoman Harriet Hageman press release, June 2026.
- "New Bill Would Let Americans Sue Federal Employees For AI Censorship," FedSmith, June 13, 2026.
- Harriet Hageman, "Reining in the censorship industrial complex in the age of AI," The Washington Times, July 26, 2026.
