Forbes columnist says he was ‘canceled’ by the magazine over Anthony Fauci coverage

New York Post ^ | 02/26/2022 | Joshua Rhett Miller

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A longtime Forbes contributor claims he lost his job after he was pressured to stop his investigative reporting on Dr. Anthony Fauci, which revealed his looming $350,000 retirement package.

Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, said that he was let go by the magazine he was “admonished” for his coverage of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director.

“Forbes couldn’t resist the pressure from the National Institutes of Health,” he told The Post in an email on Tuesday. “Forbes editors — in email and on the phone — admonished that I wrote too many columns on Fauci.”

Andrzejewski first told Fox News Monday he was “canceled” by the magazine after eight years and more than 200 columns — four of which last year were about the White House chief medical advisor.

“Clearly, Forbes’ editors did not want our oversight of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s finances on the website,” Andrzejewski told Tucker Carlson.

Though he said the magazine didn’t explicitly cite Fauci for his termination, Andrzejewsk believes that the pressure from health officials played a role.

Andrzejewski said six top executives at the National Institutes of Health recently sent him and the magazine’s top content officer an email on his coverage.

“It was couched as a corrections email, but the corrections — there was basically no substantial corrections — and they quibbled about small things in my column,” Andrzejewski said. “But that was the excuse that Forbes used to cancel the column.”

After receiving that email, Andrzejewski said he got a call within 24 hours from his Forbes editor saying he was prohibited from publishing any additional material on Fauci.

“Each piece, though, broke national news regarding his finances and federal employment,” Andrzejewski said of his coverage of the country’s top doctor.

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And, yet, the company chose to publish them?
Hypocrites...