'A mask could get us infected with the virus': A short film that runs on social networks in recent days manages to drive the tech giant out - which goes to war with it • Facebook: 'May cause public harm immediately'

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From Corona-sponsored forces: A short video called Plandemic (a "pre-planned epidemic") that lasts about 26 minutes manages to drive the tech giants, and this weekend Facebook and YouTube announced a collaboration to remove it from all of their platforms. In the short film that contains misleading and life-threatening information, Dr. Judy Mikowitz, a social activist in the Vaccine Opponents movement, is interviewed.

The video tries to claim that the spread of the corona virus is a premeditated plot of drug companies whose sole purpose is to make money from vaccines. In addition, Mikowitz claims that anyone who was vaccinated against the seasonal flu last winter actually received a dose of the corona virus inadvertently, and that a masked penis could cause self-infection with the virus.

However, Facebook did not address all the comments made in the disturbing video by Mikowitz, and the decision to remove the video was due to a very specific problem that violates the site's policy. "Saying that a masking pin can get us infected with the virus can lead to public harm immediately, so we remove the video," the social media said.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, also noted that the content was quickly removed from the site because it offered a cure for the virus - something that is not backed by health organizations. Alongside this, the company explained that the video was flagged as violating community guidelines and providing an unsubstantiated and non-medical diagnosis of the corona virus.

The movie can still be found on the web in pirate mode (don't recommend watching it). In Vimeo, for example, a video sharing site, the movie could be found by a brief search on Google, but from there it was also quickly removed. "The Vimeo site stands firm in keeping the platform safe from content that distributes harmful and misleading health information," the site's management said.

And what about Twitter? On the social network, meanwhile, the content has not been blocked, claiming that it was only marked as "unsafe," and that two tags related to the video were blocked.