A video featuring a group of doctors making false and dubious claims related to Covid-19 was removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube after going viral. US President Trump shared multiple versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter followers.
The video, published by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News, featured a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves"America's Frontline Doctors" staging a press conference in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.President Trump shared multiple versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter followers Monday night despite the dubious claims running counter to his administration's own public health experts.
"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.
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