Social media networks have removed a video of President Jair Bolsonaro in which he associates a vaccine against Covid with AIDS.
Facebook and Instagram withdrew the post from Thursday (21st) on Sunday night. This Monday (25), YouTube did the same.
The video platform also suspended the president's channel for a week for violating its rules "on alleging that vaccines don’t reduce the risk of contracting the disease and that they cause other infectious diseases."
Medical associations, including the Federal Council of Medicine, have negated Bolsonaro's claims.
Senator Renan Calheiros said that he will include a request in the Covid CPI report for a precautionary measure to the Supreme Court to ban the president from the networks.
Bolsonaro stated in the live broadcast that "official reports" from the British government indicated that vaccinated people "developed the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome faster than expected."
Afterward, he tried to blame the press, mentioning a magazine whose reporting he distorted.
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon