Facebook and Twitter have taken action on a video from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, removing it for infringing on their misinformation policies.
The video, as reported by BBC News Brasil, showed Bolsonaro talking to a street vendor and endorsing an anti-viral drug called hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment. ‘This medicine here, hydroxychloroquine, is working in every place,” Bolsonaro claimed, incorrectly. President downplaying the scale of the pandemic The Brazilian president has consistently downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, telling the nation it is “just a little flu or the sniffles,” and consistently going out in public. Bolsonaro’s communications aide tested positive for the coronavirus earlier in March, and the president has claimed he tested negative for the virus despite their proximity.