I love the way they force you to delete your own tweets to get access to your account. I guess they view this as like, rubbing a dog’s face in its poop to house train it. It’s very Skinnerian. Then the media says you deleted it.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has deleted a tweet touting an unproven coronavirus treatment that a Twitter spokesperson said today ran afoul of its rules against misleading health information.
Ingraham earlier this month tweeted praise for hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug championed by President Donald Trump as a potential treatment for the virus, despite little evidence to that effect.
In the March 20 tweet, Ingraham claimed that the drug was already in use in “many hospitals,” including at Lenox Hill in New York, and was showing “very promising results,” according to a screenshot viewed by POLITICO. The tweet referenced a segment on the host’s prime-time show that erroneously attributed information to a Lenox Hill doctor who in fact does not work at the facility.
Fox News later issued a correction saying the segment had misstated the doctor’s relationship to the hospital. A network spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment today.