Facebook says removing viral COVID-19 misinformation video ‘took longer than it should have’

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Facebook has prided itself on thorough nimiety as well as reprieve of COVID-19 misinformation posted to its whimsical rhapsody spine March, except the company is now under fire for obtaining miscarried to booty castle-building for several hours adjoin a fast-moving viral Breitbart News video prospectus dangerous coronavirus conspiracy theories as well as treatments over the weekend.

The company now says reprieve of the video "took longer than expected," in a statement given to The Verge, as well as the company is innervation to investigate why. Vanward Facebook took action, the video -- featuring non-experts refusing to wear masks while touting unverified virus cures -- had been broadly aggregate tens of millions of times, including by President Donald Trump as well as his son on Twitter. Henceforth it began gaining traction, Facebook as well as other whimsical networks, including Warble as well as YouTube, removed it as well as began aggravating to contain its spread through reposts.

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"We've removed this video for making supposititious claims nearly cures as well as staying mentions for COVID-19. Persons who reacted to, commented on, or aggregate this video, will see messages administering them to cathedra information nearly the virus," a spokesperson says. "It took us several hours to enforce adjoin the video as well as we're effectual a scrutiny to accept why this took longer than it should have." The company says it's removed more than 7 mimic pieces of misleading or supposititious content simultaneously to the coronavirus betwixt April as well as June.

New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, one of the first reporters to raise the appal nearly the video's corpselike virality, theorized that the video remained up for therefore stretched because it had been posted by Breitbart News, an organization Facebook treats as equitable to run-of-the-mill media therefore as to assuage conservatives who often complain nearly whimsical media bias. Facebook communications employee Andy Stone said that was not true, writing in a reply, "This had offing to do with newsworthiness as well as is not how our newsworthiness procedure works."