Twitter Locks Trump Jr Account For Posting Press Conference By Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Doctors

Twitter locked the account of Donald Trump Jr. for approximately 12 hours, after the president’s son posted a viral video of doctors touting Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.

The #2 most-engaged post on Facebook today is a Breitbart video of a group of doctors claiming that hydroxychloroquine is “a cure for Covid” and “you don’t need a mask.”

14 million views in 6 hours. (For scale, Plandemic got ~8 million in a few days.)

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 28, 2020

The press conference, which received over 14 million views before it was blacklisted and scrubbed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, featured members of America’s Frontline Doctors – a recently formed advocacy group which claims that “American life has fallen casualty to a massive disinformation campaign” against Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) – a decades-old malaria drug used by India and several other countries as part of their front-line treatment of the novel coronavirus, yet which has shown mixed efficacy in studies.

The blacklisting began on Facebook following a complaint by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.

This video is also trending on Twitter. It doesn’t seem to be doing big numbers on YouTube, but not having sortable sitewide data makes it hard to know for sure.

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 28, 2020

After which a Facebook spokesman said that it was removed for “sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19.”

Interestingly, the fact that a news org posted this video may be why it’s still up on FB. (Breitbart could claim it was just covering a newsworthy press conference, not promoting the views of the doctors.)

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 28, 2020