Tagged With Medical Misinformation

Instagram banned Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the world's most famous anti-vaxxers, for breaking its policies

Tom Porter

Facebook axed South American pages and groups promoting bleach as a COVID-19 cure after an Insider investigation

Tom Porter

South Americans used Facebook groups to share images and stories of using toxic bleach to treat COVID-19 and cancer after misinformation swept the continent

Tom Porter, Qayyah Moynihan

An alternative health advocate who popularised drinking bleach as a COVID-19 cure in South America is under investigation after 2 deaths

Tom Porter

Boosted by celebrity endorsements and a controversial research program, clinics are peddling stem cell autism treatments questioned by experts

Tom Porter

Bolivians are drinking a toxic bleach, wrongly believing it will ward off COVID-19. Many end up in the hospital.

Tom Porter

How an entire nation embraced toxic bleach as a COVID-19 miracle cure after a tide of misinformation that authorities couldn't counter

Tom Porter

Bolivia's lawmakers have approved 'Miracle Mineral Solution' — a toxic bleach — as a treatment for COVID-19. Only the president can stop it becoming law

Tom Porter

Taking toxic bleach MMS has killed 7 people in the US, Colombian prosecutors say — far more than previously known

Tom Porter

The self-styled archbishop of a fake Florida church has been arrested in Colombia on charges of selling bleach as a COVID-19 cure

Tom Porter, Ruqayyah Moynihan

Facebook removed more than a dozen closed groups promoting unlicensed medicines after a Business Insider investigation

Tom Porter