Exclusive: Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro’s page over COVID-19 misinformation
By Brian Ellsworth
CARACAS (Reuters) – Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating insurance coverage insurance policies in opposition to spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a therapy he claims, with out proof, can treatment the sickness, a company spokesman talked about on Saturday.
Maduro in January described Carvativir, an oral reply derived from thyme, as a “miracle” medication that neutralizes the coronavirus with no undesirable negative effects, a declare medical docs say is not backed by science.
Facebook has taken down a video via which Maduro promotes the medication because of it violates a protection in opposition to false claims “that one factor can guarantee prevention from getting COVID-19 or can guarantee restoration from COVID-19.”
“We adjust to steering from the WHO (World Health Organization) that claims there’s for the time being no medication to treatment the virus,” the spokesman instructed Reuters. …