Facebook, Google, and Twitter all censored a viral press conference held yesterday by actual doctors on Capitol Hill regarding the coronavirus as well as treatments like hydroxychloroquine:
UPDATE: This appears to be the video that was censored by Big Tech:
BREITBART – Facebook has removed a video posted by Breitbart News earlier today, which was the top-performing Facebook post in the world Monday afternoon, of a press conference in D.C. held by the group America’s Frontline Doctors and organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. The press conference featured Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and frontline doctors sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus and the medical response to the pandemic. YouTube (which is owned by Google) and Twitter subsequently removed footage of the press conference as well.
The video accumulated over 17 million views during the eight hours it was hosted on Facebook, with over 185,000 concurrent viewers.
The livestream had accumulated over 17 million views by the time of its censorship by Facebook.
The event, hosted by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and made up of medical doctors, came together to address what the group calls a “massive disinformation campaign” about the coronavirus. Norman also spoke at the event.
“If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease,” reads the event’s information page.
FACEBOOK CENSORS
“We’ve removed this video for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19,” a Facebook company spokesman, Andy Stone, told Breitbart News. The company did not specify what portion of the video it ruled to be “false information,” who it consulted to make that ruling, and on what basis it was made.
Stone then added that the platform would direct users who had interacted with the post to information on “myths debunked by the WHO.”
A New York Times tech columnist was tweeting about the press conference yesterday and marveling at how it was ‘still up’. The same Facebook spokesman, Andy Stone, replied to him letting him know the video had been taken down. You can see their tweets below:
Here’s the guys involved. I just have to ask. @andymstone, what business does Facebook have overruling the medical expertise of licensed doctors who’ve seen hydroxychloroquine work in patients and in studies? Is Facebook unilaterally deciding what science or medicine is accurate? pic.twitter.com/ABBESyZ182
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 28, 2020
GOOGLE AND TWITTER CENSOR:
Facebook’s decision to censor the livestream was quickly followed by YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing platform. The video had over 80,000 views on YouTube prior to its removal.
Following Facebook and YouTube’s removal of the video, Twitter followed suit, removing Breitbart News’s Periscope livestream of the press conference. Jack Dorsey’s platform also then limited the Breitbart News official account, indicating that tweets containing links to multiple stories about the press conference violate the platform’s COVID-19 policies.
Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted the video of the press conference of actual doctors promoting hydroxychloroquine, actually had his account SUSPENDED by Twitter a few minutes ago:
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. pic.twitter.com/7dJbauq43O
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) July 28, 2020
President Trump also retweeted someone who tweeted the periscope version of the video, which can no longer be found on Periscope’s website.
Mark Levin weighed in on this a few minutes ago, saying it’s outrageous that Big Tech would censor this:
1. When hundreds of doctors and scientists who've actually practiced medicine, unlike most government "experts" and leftwing media mouthpieces, say a drug does work in most cases,
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 28, 2020
2. it is shocking that the drug becomes a political weapons to use against the president, against the best interests of those who have the coronavirus, and Big Tech censors/deletes information these doctors and scientists seek to share with the American people.
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 28, 2020
3. These doctors and scientists are not kooks, they are not political, and the effort to crush them and their voices in the midst of a pandemic is outrageous. The president IS following the science. https://t.co/HAQXCHbTIC
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 28, 2020