During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on antitrust law with CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that publications positioning hydroxychloroquine as a cure for coronavirus will be removed.
“We do not want to become the arbiters of the truth. I think it would be a bad position for us to be and not what we should be doing, ”said Zuckerberg. “But on specific claims, if someone is going to go out and say that hydroxychloroquine has been shown to cure COVID, when it hasn’t actually been shown to cure COVID, and that statement could lead people to take a drug that in some cases, some of the data suggests it could be harmful to people, we think we should remove it. “
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner challenged Zuckerberg and suggested that this is a “legitimate topic for discussion” and that patients and their doctors should decide whether hydroxychloroquine is the correct medication:
“There is still debate about whether it is effective in treating or preventing COVID-19 and I think this is a legitimate topic of discussion and it will be up to a patient and their doctor to determine if hydroxychloroquine is the correct medication, you know, under the circumstances “
But Zuckerberg insisted that Facebook would make the final decision, regardless of the opinion of some doctors on the matter, and that his company’s position is: “To claim that there is a proven cure for COVID when, in fact, there is none, it could encouraging someone to take something that could have an adverse effect, so we removed it. “
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Zuckerberg’s comments come less than two days after Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter censored a viral press conference with several doctors who supported hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment option.
Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney who was the lead organizer of the censored press conference, stated that “there are always opposing views on medicine” and that treatment options for coronavirus should be debated and discussed , not censored and silenced.
