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GOP Rep. McCormick: We’ve Found Email Showing Fauci Knew COVID Looked Unnatural, Knew of Gain-of-Function

House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic member Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) discussed a new email unearthed by the committee that shows Dr. Anthony Fauci on February 1, 2020, saying that scientists he had discussed the COVID virus with were concerned “there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”

Anthony Fauci

Social Media Spreads Theory Missing Titanic Sub Can Be Located with Shark Tracking App

Social media users are spreading a theory originally posted to TikTok that the missing OceanGate Titan submersible can be located with a shark tracking app. According to the theory, the sub was mistaken for sharks tracked as part of a scientific experiment after two sharks associated with the study suddenly pinged near the Titanic wreck. The organization behind the app responded that their system only has the ability to ping the sharks it tracks, not other objects in the sea.

Upward angle of the underside of a Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) highlighted by cre

Titanic Sub Company OceanGate Fired Director Who Demanded Safety Testing

OceanGate, the maritime exploration company behind the submersible Titan, which went missing with five people aboard during a trip to the wreckage of the Titanic, fired its director of marine operations after he demanded safety tests of the vehicle before it took passengers to the bottom of the Ocean. The company is also facing questions about other safety decisions, like the submersible lacking a safety beacon.

Missing Titanic sub 'Titan'