Eniola Akinkuotu
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as video streaming site Youtube, have removed videos from an American doctor, Dr. Stella Immanuel, who claimed to have recorded a 100 percent good fortune rate on the COVID-19 remedy using hydroxychloroquine.
The video was first released through Breitbart News, a right-wing media outlet co-founded by Steve Bannon, former assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump.
The video, which was recorded before the U.S. Supreme Court, sees Dr. Immanuel along with seven other people dressed in white robes who call themselves “America’s frontline doctors” and talking to the press.
President Trump, who will be re-elected in November, shared several versions of the video with his millions of Twitter fans Monday night.
During the press conference, he states that “you don’t want masks” to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and that recent studies show that hydroxychloroquine is useless to covid-19’s remedy are sponsored “fake sciences” through “fake pharmaceutical companies.” “.
“This virus has a cure, it’s called hydroxychloroquine, zinc and zithromax,” she says. “You don’t want masks, there’s a cure.”
The accusations run counter to several studies on the antimalarial drug and the recommendation of public fitness officers to prevent the spread of the virus.
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According to CNN, one study found that neither hydroxychloroquine alone nor hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin gave the impression of patients’ condition after 15 days. In addition, uncommon central rhythms and maximum liver enzyme levels were more common in patients receiving hydroxychloroquine alone or with azithromycin, according to the study.
The video temporarily went viral on Facebook, fitting one of the best-performing posts on the platform with over 14 million perspectives before being removed Monday night to publicize misinformation. It has been shared about 600,000 times, according to Crowdtangle, a knowledge analytics company owned by Facebook.
“We deleted this video to express a percentage of false data about COVID-19 remedies and remedies,” a Facebook spokesperson told CNN, adding that the platform “shows messages in News Feed to others who have reacted, commented or percentages of destructive data. The erroneous COVID-19-like data we have deleted, linking it to discredited myths through WHO.
Twitter worked to delete the expired video Monday night after Trump shared versions of the video that had garned thousands of views.
“We are taking action in accordance with our Covid policy regarding the warning,” a Twitter spokesman told CNN.
Twitter has taken action against the videos Trump has retwisted. On early Tuesday morning, videos may no longer be viewable in your account. Twitter has also taken action on an edition of the video posted through Donald Trump Jr. and others shared through Breitbart News.
The video was also deleted via YouTube, where it had been viewed more than 40,000 times. Users who tried to access the expired video on Monday were greeted with a message that it had been removed for “violating YouTube network rules”.
According to America’s Frontline Doctors website, the organization is run by Dr. Simone Gold, a Los Angeles-based emergency medicine specialist who has appeared in the past on Fox News because of his opinion that prescriptions for staying at home are harmful. Gold told The Associated Press in May that he sought to report orders to stay in the house because “there was no clinical basis for the average American to care about” by Covid-19.
You may contact top-of-the-line U.S. physicians. For comments on Monday night.
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