Facebook, Youtube are removing viral Covid-19 conspiracy video ‘Plandemic’


Team Udayavani, May 9, 2020, 9:36 AM IST

Major social networks are taking down a new coronavirus conspiracy theory video which has rapidly spread across the internet.

The nearly 26-minute video is part of a series of clips being released ahead of a documentary called Plandemic that the filmmakers say “will expose the scientific and political elite who run the scam that is our global health system.”

It features Judy Mikovits, an activist among people who contend that many common vaccines are dangerous. Mikovits says in the video that wearing masks activates the coronavirus within people, without providing evidence, and criticizes orders to stay away from beaches.

The video was posted multiple times on Facebook and collected millions of interactions.Those linked to the YouTube video of the movie, which was viewed millions of times there.

Twitter and Google-owned YouTube are taking steps to remove the video or reduce its spread, Facebook has taken it down from its site.

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