Madonna’s Instagram flagged for spreading ‘false’ COVID-19 information

Madonna is doing what she does greatest once more: getting censored.

Yesterday, Instagram obscured a video from the celebrity’s account for touting a conspiracy idea that claims a remedy for the coronavirus has “been discovered and confirmed and has been accessible for months.”

“They might quite let worry management the folks and let the wealthy get richer and the poor get poorer,” the caption learn for the 61-year-old pop icon’s 15 million followers.

The censored clip options Dr. Stella Immanuel, a primary-care doctor based mostly in Houston, Texas, and main determine within the so-called “America’s Frontline Medical doctors” video, which has already been faraway from main social-media platforms, together with Instagram, YouTube and Fb. Within the now-viral video, Dr. Immanuel claimed to have handled 350 coronavirus sufferers with hydroxychloroquine.

The video on Madge’s account — during which she declared Dr. Immanuel her “hero” — quickly appeared blurred and re-captioned as “False Information,” alongside a hyperlink that result in one other web page on the platform, which clarifies the claims.

British singer Annie Lennox, 65, commented, “That is utter insanity!!! I can’t consider that you’re endorsing this harmful quackery. Hopefully your website has been hacked and also you’re nearly to elucidate it.”

Madonna, who stated she examined optimistic for COVID-19 antibodies, has since deleted the submit altogether — a maybe shocking transfer following hypothesis amongst insiders that she is “promoting out to maintain getting consideration [on Instagram] and he or she doesn’t know the way bizarre she’s coming off.”

For the reason that COVID-19 outbreak took maintain globally, the legendary artist has been protecting followers up to date by her “Quarantine Diaries.” In a single scene, the “Like a Prayer” singer is soaking in a petal-filled bathtub. She tells the digicam: “What’s horrible about it’s that it’s made us all equal in some ways, and what’s fantastic about is, is that it’s made us all equal in some ways.”

Reps for Madonna didn’t instantly reply to The Put up’s request for remark.

The censored submit comes after Twitter briefly suspended Donald Trump Jr. for sharing a clip of Dr. Immanuel discussing the anti-malarial drug.

“This virus has a remedy: It’s referred to as hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax,” says Immanuel within the footage. “You don’t want masks. There’s a remedy.”