A weird video message from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted to Facebook on Friday was lastly deleted early Monday morning as a result of it was spreading misinformation about covid-19. What did Bolsonaro say within the video that may very well be so dangerous it wanted to be deleted for breaking Facebook’s guidelines? Bolsonaro claimed within the video that covid-19 vaccines had been giving folks AIDS.

“People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome much faster than expected,” Bolsonaro mentioned, in keeping with an English translation by France 24.

Bolsonaro’s declare about vaccines being tied to AIDS comes from a debunked web rumor going viral in anti-vaccine circles that supposedly cited the British authorities.

“I recommend you read the article,” Bolsonaro mentioned within the now-deleted video, with out explaining which article he was speaking about.

But Bolsonaro clearly knew he was spreading bullshit, as a result of he even famous that giving an excessive amount of details about this conspiracy idea might result in him getting banned from Facebook.

“I’m not going to read it here,” Bolsonaro mentioned concerning the article, “because I don’t want to lose my Facebook live video.”

Why hassle to say the unnamed article then if you happen to knew it was so rubbish it might probably get your video yanked? That half isn’t clear. But Bolsonaro, who contracted covid-19 however survived, has been a serious obstacle to getting Brazilians vaccinated towards covid-19, the one factor that may cease the coronavirus pandemic in the long run.

Facebook didn’t reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark in a single day and it’s not clear why it took so lengthy for the video to be deleted if it was certainly towards the social media big’s phrases of service.

Bolsonaro, a far-right ally of different authoritarians like Donald Trump, has been accused by Brazilian lawmakers of crimes towards humanity for his response to the covid-19 pandemic, which has killed greater than 606,000 folks. Bolsonaro’s hostility to Brazil’s indigenous inhabitants and the unnecessary demise of indigenous folks has been known as out as particularly egregious.

“Even before the pandemic, President Jair Bolsonaro commanded an anti-indigenous policy that deliberately exposed native peoples to a lack of assistance, harassment, land invasions and violence, with these acts of outright hostility intensifying … after the arrival of the virus,” the draft report says, in keeping with a duplicate reviewed by the Guardian.

“By allowing the virus to proceed … he caused death and suffering remotely. The constant harassment and deliberate neglect, combined with the pandemic, were worse than weapons,” the report continues.

Brazil is averaging about 11,000 new covid-19 circumstances per day with a seven-day common of 334 new deaths per day. And whereas that’s a lot better than the U.S. is presently doing, Brazil additionally has a smaller inhabitants.

The U.S. reported over 105,500 new circumstances of covid-19 on Monday and 1,591 new deaths. The overwhelming majority of these dying from covid-19 presently are the unvaccinated.