By Dustin Rowles | Politics | July 28, 2020 |
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | July 28, 2020 |
Yesterday, Donald Trump took to Twitter to complain that the Trending items were too often about him, and that they were all negative, which is not inaccurate.
So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called “Trending”, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2020
Meanwhile, despite the fact that multiples studies and the FDA have concluded that hydroxychloroquine is not effective against the Coronavirus — its emergency use was discontinued in June — the President continues to insist without evidence that it is an effective treatment. Last night, in the span of half an hour, Trump sent out 14 tweets defending the use of hydroxychloroquine. Moreover, Trump actually retweeted a tweet that said, “Covid has cure. America wake up,” with a video full of so much misinformation that even Facebook had already deleted it. But Trump retweeted it to his 84 million followers. The video claims that face masks and lockdowns are not needed to stop the disease, and that hydroxychloroquine cures the diesease. Twitter deleted the video, which originated on Breitbart, and added information about hydroxychloroquine into its trending section about the ineffectiveness of of the drug to treat Covid-19.
Because Trump is the POTUS, Twitter still won’t suspect his account, but the same cannot be said for his son, who posted the video and had his account disabled for 12 hours (he can still access the account and send DMs, but he cannot tweet or retweet).
BREAKING: @Twitter & @jack have suspended @DonaldJTrumpJr for posting a viral video of medical doctors talking about Hydroxychloroquine.
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) July 28, 2020
Big Tech is the biggest threat to free expression in America today & they're continuing to engage in open election interference - full stop. pic.twitter.com/7dJbauq43O
The “doctor” in the video promoting hydroxychloroquine as a cure, by the way, claims to have treated 350 patients with 100 percent success, but she has also promoted conspiracy theories about “the gay agenda, secular humanism, Illuminati and the demonic new world order.”
Anyway, remember when Trump actually encouraged mask use? We all knew it wouldn’t last.