EFE.- The social networks Facebook and Instagram removed from their platforms the video in which The Brazilian president, the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, linked the use of vaccines against Covid-19 to the development of AIDS.
The video, whose access was blocked on Sunday night, corresponds to the last live broadcast that the head of state usually makes on Thursdays for his followers and which is accompanied by ministers and senior government officials.
In the live one last Thursday, Bolsonaro, who has been characterized by his denial in relation to the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, quoted an alleged article from Exame magazine, That was not more than a false news, according to which some people vaccinated against Covid-19 have been diagnosed with AIDS.
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“I’m just going to break the news. I am not going to comment on it because I already said it in the past and it was highly criticized. Official UK Government reports suggest that those fully vaccinated are developing AIDS 15 days after the second dose. Read that news. I am not going to read it here because I could have problems with my live broadcast, ”said the president.
According to Facebook spokespersons, the video was excluded from the platform due to the policies of the company “does not allow claims that Covid-19 vaccines kill or cause serious harm to people.”
This is the first time that Facebook has removed one of Bolsonaro’s weekly live broadcasts from its platform. In March 2020, however, he removed from the air a video in which the president, talking with his followers, recommends treating Covid-19 with the use of chloroquine, a medicine with no proven effect against Covid-19, and defends the end of social distancing measures.
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Shortly after the exclusion of the video, Bolsonaro, in response to a comment by a supporter on Facebook, claimed that he only read a story published by a magazine.
The alleged news from Exame magazine, however, was published in October 2020, when vaccines against Covid-19 were still in development and had not begun to be applied.
The assumptions Official UK government reports of vaccinated people who had been diagnosed with AIDS cited by the ruler were also denied.
On the eve of Bolsonaro’s live broadcast, a Senate commission released a harsh report on the pandemic in Brazil, in which it accused the head of state of “crimes against humanity” for having aggravated the crisis with his denialist position.
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