The doctor whom President Trump promoted for her support of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been touted by some as a potential treatment for coronavirus patients, was suspended on Twitter.
Dr. Stella Immanuel, a West African-born trained physician, was suspended on the platform Wednesday after she violated Twitter’s “COVID-19 misinformation policy,” a spokesperson for the platform told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.
Immanuel “will be required to delete the violative Tweet, and will then have 12 hours of limited account functionality,” the spokesperson added.
In the video that Immanuel participated in, which went viral and was reshared by the likes of Trump and Donald Trump Jr., she claimed that hydroxychloroquine was a “cure” for COVID-19.
Immanuel, whom Trump praised as “spectacular,” said she has had a 100% success rate in treating more than 350 coronavirus patients with the hydroxychloroquine cocktail.
“So if some fake science, some person sponsored by all these fake pharma companies comes out [and] says, ‘Oh, we’ve done studies, and they found out that it doesn’t work,’ I can tell you categorically it’s fake science,” Immanuel said.
Twitter removed the video when the president shared it, as did other social media platforms, citing misinformation. It turns out that Immanuel, a pediatrician and religious minister, has promoted a number of controversial and outlandish beliefs about space aliens and having sexual relationships with demons in dreams.
Trump Jr. was partially suspended on Twitter for sharing the video.
