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- A video pushing misinformation about face masks racked up hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook and YouTube, before the latter removed it for violating the platform’s community standards.
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Jul 24, 2020 · A video pushing misinformation about face masks racked up hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook and YouTube, before the latter removed it for violating the platform’s...
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- Misleading Cavities Assertion
- Unsupported Claim on ‘Facial Deformities’
- Distorted Claim on Risks
- Baseless Claim About Bacterial Pneumonia
A Missouri-based chiropractor— who has been previously warned by federal officials to stop spreading misleading content regarding unproven COVID-19 treatments — is now wrongly telling Facebook users that face masks have been proven “unsafe” and “ineffective.” In a Feb. 11 videolive-streamed on Facebook and viewed more than 70,000 times, Eric Nepute...
Nepute begins: “Reason no. 1 — this is wild right here. Cavities. I didn’t even know this was a thing until I started digging into it about a week or so ago. New York dentists are reporting that half their patients are suffering from decaying teeth at a higher rate in 2021 and 2020 than they had been before, due to — and this is Dr. Rob Raimondi — ...
“No. 2: Facial deformities. Masking children triggers mouth breathing, which has been shown to cause narrowing of the face, narrowing of the mouth, high vaults in the palate, dental malocclusions — and the list goes on and on,” Nepute tells his viewers. “This is according to the Journal of General Dentistry. They say you shouldn’t wear one.” He’s r...
Nepute also misleadingly claims that face masks are associated with an “increased risk of COVID-19.” “What, wait a minute, I thought I was wearing a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19?” he says. “Just like when they told me that I’m getting a vaccine to stop the spread, that doesn’t do it either.” (We’ll address his factual distortions about vacci...
“Bacterial pneumonia is on the rise,” Nepute says. “We’ve seen a ton of that in our practices. We’ve seen so much respiratory bacterial infections it’s not even funny, especially among children.” He adds: “In Oklahoma press conference, Dr. James Meehan indeed testified, reporting coming from all of his colleagues are showing, across the world, incr...
Apr 9, 2021 · “We removed AIER’s video because it included content that contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities regarding the efficacy of masks to prevent the...
Feb 3, 2021 · Spencer, Saranac Hale. “ Outdated Fauci Video on Face Masks Shared Out of Context.” FactCheck.org. 19 May 2020. “60 Minutes” YouTube Channel.
Jun 16, 2021 · While YouTube, as a private company, is within its rights to decide what to carry, the decision to remove this video illustrates a disturbing, censorial trend that has accelerated in the age of COVID.
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May 21, 2020 · Why did YouTube and Facebook take down Plandemic? Plandemic was taken down by YouTube and Facebook on May 7 for violation of their misinformation policies. The video is no longer available on those platforms. But, as the adage goes, nothing ever dies on the internet.
May 8, 2020 · The 26-minute video, which was framed as part of a longer documentary on the coronavirus pandemic, promoted several false claims, including that wearing a face mask makes it easier to get...
