YouTube, Facebook split on removal of doctors' viral coronavirus videos

The different reactions highlight the challenges of moderating high-stakes misinformation as it goes viral, especially when the source is considered an expert.

You Tube has removed two videos of California doctors whose calls to ease coronavirus lockdowns have become the newest ammunition used by conservative media and fringe activists in their calls to end government measures to slow the spread of the virus.

The doctors, Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi of Bakersfield, California, downplayed the risk of the coronavirus and asserted that stay-at-home measures were unnecessary. They also promoted a conspiracy theory that doctors were falsely attributing unrelated deaths to COVID-19, the disease associated with the coronavirus.

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