The platform has removed a video in which the head of state mentioned false information involving Vaccines against CVIV-19 to AIDS.
Le Monde with AFP.
Relationships remain stretched between YouTube and Jair Bolsonaro. The platform has removed, on Monday, October 25, a video and suspended for a week the activities of the Chair of the Brazilian President.
“We have removed a video of the Jair Bolsonaro chain for violation of our CVIV-19 medical disinformation policies that affirms that vaccines do not reduce the risk of contracting the disease and provoking others Infectious diseases, “YouTube announced in a statement.
This is the second time the president violates the “norms of the community” of the platform. This time, he will not be able to publish new videos or make live broadcasts for the next seven days, depending on the rules of the platform. The rest of his videos on the chain, where he has 3.5 million subscribers, is still accessible on YouTube. The extreme right leader did not react to the blocking of his YouTube channel.
Facebook and Instagram social networks, which both belong to the same group, removed the video on Monday for the same reason.
The British government denies
In his weekly live video on Thursday, October 21, posted simultaneously on several platforms, Jair Bolsonaro mentioned a rumor that official reports of the British government “suggest” that the entirely vaccinated people develop the AIDS virus “a lot faster than expected “.
“I recommend reading the news. I will not read them here because I could have problems with my live,” added the head of state. The information was denied by the British Government with the Agency France-Presse (AFP) Agency (AFP).
The Brazilian society of infectious diseases has provided on Saturday in a statement that “no relation is known between any VVID-19 vaccine and the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS].
Facebook had already withdrawn in March a video in which Mr Bolsonaro, criticizing preventive measures and anti-Covid vaccines, encouraged the crowds at a time when some 2,500 people died every day of Cvid-19 in Brazil.
YouTube had sent a first alert in July, when it removed from its chain other videos containing false information on the pandemic, in which the efficiency of the mask to prevent infections was questioned, and the Use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin encouraged, while these drugs have not been recognized as efficient.
The President is often accused of spreading false news. In August, the Federal Supreme Court decided to investigate it for “slander” crimes and “crime incitement”, including its questioning of the electronic voting system in Brazil.