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• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  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.)

• @surabees Andrew Surabian on x

  BREAKING: @Twitter & @jack have suspended @DonaldJTrumpJr for posting a viral video of medical doctors talking about Hydroxychloroquine. Big Tech is the biggest threat to free expression in America today & they're continuing to engage in open election interference - full stop. ht…

• @brandyzadrozny Brandy Zadrozny on x

  That Breitbart video from the doctors claiming that Hydroxychloroquine cures the coronavirus has been going crazy in anti-vax, anti-mask, reopen Facebook Groups today. Its at >20 mil views on FB. And that doesn't include all the private groups it's been spreading through. https:/…

• @sheeraf Sheera Frenkel on x

  Still waiting for answers from @Facebook and @Youtube about this viral coronavirus misinformation video. Some versions have been removed, but I've found a dozen others that are still live, (with millions of views each). Oh, and Trump just shared it.

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  facebook cannot manage mis/disinformation at its scale. if videos can spread that widely before the company takes note (as they have time and time again) then there's no real hope. it's not a matter of finding a fix - the platform is the problem. https://twitter.com/...

• @erictrump Eric Trump on x

  What an absolute joke. This is censorship friends and they do it to all of us! If they are willing to censor the President of the United States, believe me they will take away your voice the second you disagree with their politics. Please remember this on November 3rd. @Twitter h…

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Asked Facebook about the bad viral hydroxychloroquine video and why it got 20M+ views before being removed. Company says removal “took longer than it should have” and will undertake a review https://twitter.com/...

• @kathrynw5 Kathryn Watson on x

  Stella Immanuel, Trump's New Favorite COVID-19 Doctor, Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  i suppose i've staked out a radical position here but i don't think facebook — as we know it or as they want to exist — can exist without truly warping people's perceptions of reality. any truly meaningful reform would make facebook operate in unrecognizable ways

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  you can say whatever you want about intent of execs or the negative effects of losing an information distribution platform of facebook's scale. you can talk about free speech. but all of it pales in comparison to the fact that it's impossible to moderate at scale

• @tomlevenson Thomas Levenson on x

  I find it depressing and fascinating that so many people are willing to say stuff that will kill people. There's no sugar coating this: telling people that there's a cure when there isn't encourages risk taking. Telling people masks are unnecessary is simply wrong. Murderers. htt…

• @abraarkaran Abraar Karan on x

  Have had multiple friends from back home in LA send me this video in the last few hours, genuinely asking if they should believe it. Efforts to debunk this impassioned false rhetoric must be stronger, more organized, more persistent. We are battling a misinformation epidemic. htt…

• @willsommer Will Sommer on x

  Trump just walked out of his press conference after being asked why he's promoting a doctor who thinks alien DNA is a medical cure and that demon dream sperm causes gynecological ailments. Read the story for yourself! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...

• @robert_e_kelly Robert E Kelly on x

  This is not the Onion? Holy s* https://twitter.com/...

• @congressmanraja Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi on x

  As social media has become more like a mass communication system than a consumer product, social media platforms like Facebook, and Twitter, need to take a more aggressive approach to remove misinformation before it goes viral https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  New from @BrandyZadrozny + me: Dark money and a PAC's coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind that wildly viral hydroxychloroquine video https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @brandyzadrozny Brandy Zadrozny on x

  Facebook pulled the video but now we're in Phase 2: where the right claims “censorship!” and bombards the sites with other versions. And next month, a different group of white coats will make an insane video and we can start this dance all over again. https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @jdiamond1 Jeremy Diamond on x

  Here's a little background on that doctor touting hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” in the viral video that Trump amplified yesterday: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @bkoskella Britt Koskella on x

  What do we do? The deliberate spread of conspiracies and misinformation is a pandemic for which I have yet to see good discussion of vaccines or cures. It's terrifying. https://twitter.com/...

• @markbland Mark Bland on x

  They ain't gonna let these fools pretend science doesn't exist anymore. Good job on them. https://twitter.com/...

• @replindasanchez Rep. Linda Snchez on x

  Spreading misinformation during a pandemic is dangerous. This is the right move by @Twitter. Remember folks, listen to the public health experts. https://twitter.com/...

• @senwarren Elizabeth Warren on x

  Mark Zuckerberg once said that “Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company.” In that case, he's just as reckless about peddling miracle cures for COVID-19 as President Trump. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @cnbc @cnbc on x

  A video containing misleading coronavirus information went viral before it was pulled from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @alexberenson Alex Berenson on x

  Yep, when the media will not report accurately on the realities of who's dying, the fact that hospital systems are far from overrun, and the reality that most new “cases” in the Sunbelt are asymptomatic - People are going to start looking for and believing conspiracy theories. ht…

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Facebook could slow down its product, remove or tweak the Share button, and make misinformation manageable. Trying to control the outputs without fixing the machine is a fool's errand. https://twitter.com/...

• @wiczipedia Nina Jankowicz on x

  “In early 2017, Google suggested that I view and flag the content I found offensive myself. They wanted me to watch my daughter's murder and explain why it should be removed. I never have and I never will watch any of those videos.” Tech must do better. https://www.cnn.com/...

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  The group that first pushed this video isn't new. Anti-Obamacare conservative activists—the Tea Party Patriots Action—have been working with this coalition of health professionals to advocate loosening states' restrictions on their services for months https://news.bloomberglaw.co…

• @sam_l_shead Sam Shead on x

  NEW: A video containing misinformation on the coronavirus was allowed to clock up millions of views before it was pulled from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Those in the video claim that hydroxychloroquine is “a cure for Covid” and “you don't need a mask https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @twittercomms @twittercomms on x

  This account has not been permanently suspended. Per the screenshot, the Tweet requires deletion because it violates our rules (sharing misinformation on COVID-19), and the account will have limited functionality for 12 hours. More in our rules: https://help.twitter.com/... https…

• @kaitlancollins Kaitlan Collins on x

  The message from Twitter says his account will stay up but he can only send direct messages and can't tweet, etc. for the next 12 hours.