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3223

Twitter censors user's statement about COVID-19 therapeutics: A Twitter user was censored for the following tweet: "The Shermans did their own thing with Apotex. In other countries HCQ became the top treatment in protocols developed to address early treatment of the virus while in North American and the UK - the focus was on promoting vaccines, masks & lockdowns. Low death rate  = HCQ." Twitter applied a "Misleading" label to the tweet, directing users to "Learn about emerging treatments for COVID-19 from health experts." The label had a link that sent users who clicked on it to a page titled "The World Health Organization's advice on treatments for COVID-19," which consisted of an unattributed summary of "What you need to know," followed by relevant tweets from what Twitter considers to be "experts" on this subject." In addition, the tweet had a sharing restriction added, so it could not be liked, replied to, or re-tweeted, but could be quote-tweeted.

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