Fact-check: “Fauci never told anyone that schools should be closed”
Verdict: False (85% confidence)
Note (source-tier adjustment): the strongest source cited for this verdict is press/institutional-tier; no primary, government, or peer-reviewed source was retrieved. Confidence is capped accordingly. Fauci's own diary entry from March 15, 2020 — released in 2026 — directly contradicts the absolute claim that he never told anyone schools should close. In that entry, Fauci wrote that he 'convinced' New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to close NYC schools, and a California aide told him the govern…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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