Covid 19 Doctors Video banned by Facebook and YouTube
Covid 19 Doctors Video banned by Facebook and YouTube the video, featuring a group calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors,” was viewed tens of millions of times on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube on Monday before all three networks took action and removed it from their networks. Front-line American doctors are speaking out in Washington DC about #COVID19 misinformation spread by the media and the criminal vilification of Hydroxychloroquineas an effective COVID19 treatment & prophylactic by fraudulent JUNK science.
Covid 19 Doctors Video banned by Facebook and YouTube
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COVID 19 DOCTORS VIDEO BANNED BY FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE
Twitter deleted the posts Trump had shared, saying the video was “in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
Trump’s Twitter feed now has a note on it saying: “This tweet is no longer available.” Similar action was taken on tweets shared by Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr.
Facebook and YouTube have also removed the video from their platforms, where it was first posted by right-wing news outlet Breitbart. Facebook said it was removed for “sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19.”
Covid 19 Doctors Video banned by Facebook and YouTube
The video shows footage from a press conference with a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors” standing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Covid 19 Doctors Video banned by Facebook and YouTube
The group claims it wants to
“empower Americans to stop living in fear” and
“if Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy will cease.”
The group is spearheaded by Simone Gold, a Los Angeles-based emergency medicine specialist who has previously opposed stay-at-home orders, telling the Associated Press in May that there was “no scientific basis that the average American should be concerned” about COVID-19.
Covid 19 Doctors Video banned by Facebook and YouTube
After the video was live-streamed by Breitbart it quickly became one of the top-performing posts on Facebook, racking up tens of millions of views. It was shared over 600,000 times according to data from analytics firm CrowdTangle, which is owned by Facebook.
Despite the high-profile nature of the video, Facebook took hours to remove it, highlighting once again that the company, which has over 2.5 billion users, simply cannot control the spread of disinformation on its network