YouTube suspended has suspended the channel of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for at least seven days, after the president alleged during a broadcast that the use of vaccines against COVID-19 could facilitate the development of AIDS.
The video, which was broadcast live on the president’s official account last Thursday, was also deleted because violates “medical disinformation about COVID-19” guidelines of the platform, as explained by Youtube.
“We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of who the creator is or what your political opinion is, “the platform said in a statement.
Sources from the social network explained that YouTube also chose to suspend Bolsonaro’s account for at least a week because your channel had already been notified last July about the publication of misinformation about the pandemic.
So by be a “recidivism”, The Brazilian far-right leader will not be able to post new videos or broadcast live for the next seven days.
Is about the first time a social network suspends Bolsonaro’s profile, who has been characterized by his denial in the face of the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and the effectiveness of vaccines to combat it.
Also this Monday, social networks Facebook and Instagram withdrew the video from their platforms in which Bolsonaro linked the use of vaccines against COVID to the development of AIDS.
The far-right leader cited an alleged article in Exame magazine and alleged reports from the British Government, according to which some people vaccinated against COVID have been diagnosed with AIDS, to justify your stance against immunization.
“I’m just going to break the news. I’m not going to comment on it because I already said it in the past and it was highly criticized. Official UK Government reports suggest that fully vaccinated people are developing AIDS 15 days after the second dose. Read that News. I will not read it here because I could have problems with my live broadcast“, assured the governor.
Bolsonaro’s statements generated a wave of criticism from different medical and scientific associations, who quickly denied any link to the COVID vaccine and AIDS and branded it as fake news.
With more than 605,000 deaths and 21.7 million infected by COVID-19, Brazil is, in absolute terms, the second country in the world hardest hit by the pandemic, behind only the United States.
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