Instagram censors Madonna for praising Frontline doctor
Instagram flagged, then deleted a post by Madonna in which the pop star praised Dr. Stella Immanuel, the Houston physician who says she has successfully treated 350 coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine.
“The truth will set us all free,” Madonna wrote, according to screen shots of her now-deleted Instagram post.
“But some people don’t want to hear the truth. Especially the people in power who stand to make money from this long drawn out search for a vaccine. Which has been proven and available for months. They would rather let fear control them and let the rich get richer and the poor and sick get sicker.”
“This woman is my hero,” Madonna concluded, referring to Dr. Immanuel, who in a viral video of an America’s Frontline Doctors press conference detailed her success using hydroxychloroquine to treat covid patients.
Instagram first blurred the video and added a “False Information” label, according to multiple reports.
Instagram then removed Madonna’s post, saying it had been reviewed by “independent fact checkers.”
Breibart News noted that Facebook, which owns Instagram, “has been stepping up its fact-checking efforts on the photo-sharing platform, relying on a network of outside fact-checking organizations that are mostly left-leaning.”
A spokesperson for Instagram told The Guardian that Madonna’s post was deleted “for making false claims about cures and prevention methods for Covid-19.”
Madonna revealed in May that she got tested and discovered that she had antibodies for the coronavirus.
The video of the doctors’ press conference was censored by Facebook, Twitter, and Google/YouTube.
The video accumulated more than 17 million views during the eight hours it was hosted on Facebook, with more than 185,000 concurrent viewers, making it the second most-engaged post on Facebook that day.
Twitter on Wednesday temporarily suspended the accounts of PragerU and other prominent conservatives after they tweeted videos of doctors commenting on the effectiveness of the hydroxychloroquine, Breitbart News reported.
PragerU had its account restricted for allegedly violating the platform’s rules regarding posts about coronavirus after sharing a video of the “White Coat Summit” featuring medical doctors.
“American doctors are holding a ‘White Coat Summit’ in Washington, D.C. to address ‘a massive disinformation campaign’ by the media about coronavirus,” said PragerU’s tweet.
Director and producer Robby Starbuck was suspended after replying to someone, “I guess you think Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiology professor at Yale School of Public Health isn’t a real doctor?”...
He’s also touting that Hydroxychloroquine works.”