Facebook, Twitter and Youtube has deleted videos by an American-based doctor, Dr. Stella Immanuel who claimed to have successfully treated about 350 Covid-19 patients using a combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax.
The video was first published by Breitbart News, a right-wing medium co-founded by Steve Bannon, a former aide to American President, Donald Trump.
In the video, which was shot in front of the United States Supreme Court, Dr Immanuel is seen with seven others wearing white lab coats calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors” and addressing the press.
She claimed in the video that, “you don’t need masks” to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and that recent studies showing hydroxychloroquine is ineffective for the treatment of Covid-19 are “fake science” sponsored by “fake pharma companies.”
“This virus has a cure, it’s called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax,” she claims. “You don’t need masks, there is a cure.”
Her claims run contrary to multiple studies on the anti-malarial drug and advice from public health officials to prevent the spread of the virus.
President Trump, who is up for reelection in November, shared multiple versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter followers on Monday night.
The video quickly went viral on Facebook and other social media platforms, becoming one of the top-performing posts on Facebook with more than 14 million views before it was taken down Monday night for promoting misinformation. It was shared nearly 600,000 times, according to Crowdtangle, a data-analytics firm owned by Facebook.
“We’ve removed this video for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19,” a Facebook spokesperson told CNN, adding that the platform is “showing messages in News Feed to people who have reacted to, commented on or shared harmful COVID-19-related misinformation that we have removed, connecting them to myths debunked by the WHO.”
Twitter took action against the videos that Trump retweeted. By early Tuesday morning, the videos were no longer able to be viewed on his account. Twitter also took action on a version of the video posted by Donald Trump Jr. and others shared by Breitbart News.
“We’re taking action in line with our Covid misinfo policy,” a Twitter spokesperson told CNN.
The video was also removed by YouTube, where it had been viewed more than 40,000 times. Users attempting to access the video late Monday were greeted with a message that said it had been removed for “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”
According to the website for America’s Frontline Doctors, the group is led by Dr. Simone Gold, a Los Angeles-based emergency medicine specialist who has previously been featured on Fox News for her views that stay-at-home orders are harmful. Gold told the Associated Press in May that she wanted to speak out against stay-home orders because there was “no scientific basis that the average American should be concerned” about Covid-19.
Meanwhile, she has threatened Facebook to restore her page and videos or their computers will start to crash and they face shutdown.
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