Google rejected ads in August that explained the #puppygate story and would have run when a search was done for NIH or Fauci: The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is a group that shines a light on questionable government-funded research projects. According to Reclaim the Net, the group identified a trail of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci's division, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to research being conducted in Tunisia. According to an ad that the WCW prepared to run on Google, the NIAID sent grant money to the Tunisian lab, "where the NIH has no oversight and there are no laws protecting animals used in experiments." The ad continued to explain that the experiment was to "drug beagles and lock them in cages filled with hundreds of infected sand flies. The experimenters starved the flies so they were hungry; then 'the sand flies were then allowed to feed on the sedated dogs....'" This story broke widely in the third week of October, leading to the trending Twitter hashtag #puppygate. However, WCW attempted to run its ads about the discovery back in August. According to Reclaim the Net, WCW revealed that Google removed the ads "the same day they began running," and suspended the WCW account, with no explanation provided of what rules were broken or why the ads were removed, even when it denied the group's appeal. Given the keen interest and outrage spurred by this story in the past week, it is unclear why Google refused to run these ads, and why it has continued, according to WCW, to leave the group's account suspended.