You bear false witness (as you do in most of your posts). You are fortunate that telling lies is not against forum rules.
What Fauci said, if you actually read the article is this:
“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the woman in an email dated Feb. 5, 2020.
Fauci also told the woman, Sylvia Burwell, that masks “are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infections.”
Fauci never says in this article that masks don't work. In fact, he clearly says they do!!!! Again:
"masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infections.”
Even if masks do not protect the wearer from getting infected, the fact that they protect the sick from transmitting to others means they "work".
Besides, these statements were made early in the pandemic - we have learned much since then. Including that masks do indeed provide some protection to the wearer.