Youtube suspended the activities of the Brazilian president’s channel, Jair, for a week Bolsonaro, after removing a video in which Bolsonaro cited false information associating the anticovid vaccine with AIDS. “We have removed a video from Jair’s channel Bolsonaro for violating our medical disinformation policies on covid-19 by claiming that vaccines do not reduce the risk of contracting the disease and that they cause other infectious diseases, “YouTube said.
It is the second time that the Brazilian president has violated the “community rules” of the platform, so this time he will not be able to publish new videos or make live broadcasts for the next seven days “, according to the rules of the platform. The rest of his videos on the platform. channel, where it has 3.5 million subscribers, is still accessible on YouTube.
In its weekly live broadcast last Thursday, published simultaneously on several platforms, Bolsonaro he mentioned official UK government reports that “suggest” that those who are fully vaccinated are developing the disease “much faster than anticipated”. Facebook and Instagram deleted the video for the same reason.