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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Tue Jul 28, 2020, 03:39 PM Jul 2020

Quack "doctors" pushing hydroxycholoroquine and misinformation; still. Retweeted by trump

at least Twitter is attempting to take down this garbage

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A video featuring a group of doctors making false and dubious claims related to the coronavirus was removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube after going viral online Monday.

The video, published by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News, featured a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves "America's Frontline Doctors" staging a press conference in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC

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Quack "doctors" pushing hydroxycholoroquine and misinformation; still. Retweeted by trump (Original Post) magicguido Jul 2020 OP

I've seen this a thousand times today. BlueTsunami2018 Jul 2020 #1

oh, he's got some winning shit on his page or whatever they call it...feed. Idiot. CurtEastPoint Jul 2020 #2

This showed up on my Facebook page yesterday. It was shared by one of my not-so-bright skylucy Jul 2020 #3

Republicans remind me of prosecuting attorneys... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #4

Or Trump still insisting that the Central Park Five were guilty and deserved the death penalty. IggleDuer Jul 2020 #5

BlueTsunami2018

(4,884 posts)

1. I've seen this a thousand times today.

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 03:41 PM

Jul 2020

On Facebook. People are incredibly gullible.

CurtEastPoint

(19,865 posts)

2. oh, he's got some winning shit on his page or whatever they call it...feed. Idiot.

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 03:41 PM

Jul 2020

skylucy

(4,014 posts)

3. This showed up on my Facebook page yesterday. It was shared by one of my not-so-bright

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 03:43 PM

Jul 2020

friends. I flagged it to Facebook as "fake news". By the evening, it was gone from both on my page and also gone from my Trumpy friend's page. I'm always amazed at how gullible people can be. Put a white coat on any nut job and they think sh/he is a doctor.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,497 posts)

4. Republicans remind me of prosecuting attorneys...

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 03:51 PM

Jul 2020

... who still insist that the innocent people they helped send to prison were indeed guilty despite overwhelming evidence that later exonerated them.

Science is not a jury trial involving attorneys who stick with their "side" no matter the evidence.

IggleDuer

(979 posts)

5. Or Trump still insisting that the Central Park Five were guilty and deserved the death penalty.