Facebook Suspends Australian MP for a Week Over Hydroxychloroquine Posts

Facebook Suspends Australian MP for a Week Over Hydroxychloroquine Posts
Craig Kelly (top) and Tim Wilson in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on in Canberra, Australia Feb. 21, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images
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Facebook has suspended the account of Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Craig Kelly for a week after he allegedly violated their “misinformation and harm policy” by sharing information on hydroxychloroquine.

The MP revealed yesterday that the social media giant deleted five of his posts, which featured medical experts’ supports of alternative CCP virus treatments, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin. Facebook also removed a post in which Kelly shared an opinion from a pathologist that “paper and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling.”
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