{"id":27677,"date":"2020-07-28T20:45:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27677"},"modified":"2020-07-28T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:45:49","slug":"covid-19-trump-son-engage-facebook-others-over-nigerian-trained-doctors-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27677","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Trump, son engage Facebook, others over Nigerian-trained doctor&#8217;s video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trump Retweets COVID-19 Video Yanked By Social Media For Pushing Fake Cure<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Mary Papenfuss<br \/>\n<strong>HuffPost<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0and his son,\u00a0Donald Trump Jr.,\u00a0on Monday retweeted a viral video that was yanked by\u00a0Facebook\u00a0for pushing \u201cfalse information about cures and treatments for\u00a0COVID-19.\u201d<br \/>\nYouTube and Twitter also pulled the video.<br \/>\nThe clip, which was originally posted by the right-wing news site Breitbart, featured four people who identified themselves as doctors speaking in front of the Supreme Court building. One was Stella Immanuel, who claims to be a physician in Houston, and said\u00a0hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug often touted by Trump, was a cure for COVID-19.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27677-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VID-20200727-WA0030.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VID-20200727-WA0030.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VID-20200727-WA0030.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nA number of scientific studies have determined that the\u00a0drug was not only ineffective\u00a0against the novel coronavirus but that it could\u00a0cause fatal heart arrhythmia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at this time, there is\u00a0no drug or therapy presently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent or treat COVID-19.<br \/>\nImmanuel also said that people\u00a0do not need to wear face masks\u00a0and attacked \u201cfake doctors\u201d who \u201csound like a computer.\u201d\u00a0To avoid contracting coronavirus, the\u00a0CDC advises wearing a face mask, limiting face-to-face contact with others and wearing gloves when cleaning and disinfecting or providing care for the sick.<br \/>\nImmanuel has an unusual background for a self-proclaimed COVID-19 expert. Information about her medical background is limited; however, she does serve as the head of\u00a0Fire Power Ministries, which appears to be located in a Houston strip mall and promotes a baptism of fire programme that offers \u201cmiracles, healings and deliverance.\u201d<br \/>\nOn Monday night,\u00a0Immanuel\u00a0threatened Facebook with God\u2019s wrath.<br \/>\n\u201cIf my page is not back up Facebook will be down in Jesus name,\u201d she\u00a0tweeted.<br \/>\nIn addition, Trump retweeted a post that quotes a Dr. Lee Vliet who claims infectious disease expert Dr.\u00a0Anthony Fauci\u00a0\u201cmisled the American public.\u201d<br \/>\nThe original tweet was posted by \u201cWar Room: Pandemic,\u201d a radio show and podcast hosted by Trump\u2019s former White House strategist\u00a0Steve Bannon.<br \/>\nTrump retweeted\u00a0more than a dozen\u00a0posts on Monday evening that plugged hydroxychloroquine, Mediaite reported. His personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, also posted inaccurate information about the coronavirus:<br \/>\nThe Breitbart video was viewed at least 14 million times by Monday afternoon, per New York Times reporter Kevin Roose. Facebook appeared to be the first social media site to pull the clip from its site. Trump and his son\u2019s retweets featuring the video were later yanked by Twitter.<br \/>\nA Facebook representative told CNN that the company was also trying to counteract damaging information in the video.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re showing messages in News Feed to people who have reacted to, commented on or shared harmful COVID-19-related misinformation that we have removed, connecting them to\u00a0myths debunked by the WHO,\u201d a Facebook spokesperson said.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Report by <strong>www.yahoo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Retweets COVID-19 Video Yanked By Social Media For Pushing Fake Cure By Mary Papenfuss HuffPost President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0and his son,\u00a0Donald Trump Jr.,\u00a0on Monday retweeted a viral video that was yanked by\u00a0Facebook\u00a0for pushing \u201cfalse information about cures and treatments for\u00a0COVID-19.\u201d YouTube and Twitter also pulled the video. The clip, which was originally posted by the right-wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7,8],"tags":[1995,33,1583],"class_list":["post-27677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","category-politics","tag-immanuel","tag-trump","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}