YouTube and Twitter censor medical research center’s UV therapy after NY Times journalist probe – Reclaim The Net

While the rest of the world might be struggling in the darkness of a global health saga, with livelihoods and even lives under threat this is turning into Big Techs moment to shine.

After years of media and political elites trying to whip these powerful tools of data collection and mass surveillance into just the right shape the coronavirus pandemic has given tech giants a guise under which to do their thing unchecked by anyone except some independent media outlets and blogs, and incredulous social media users.

One such incident involves Aytu BioScience, which on Aril 20 announced it had entered an exclusive worldwide partnership with Cedars-Sinai to develop the Healight Platform Technology.

Dr. Ruchi Mathur of Ceders-Sinai announced this in a tweet the same day, saying, Weve already shown that the Healight kills bacteria. Now we show that it can also kill coronavirus.

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Mathur also provided a link to a Yahoo News article announcing the deal.

But as of this writing, Aytu BioSciences video on YouTube has been banned, while its Twitter account was also temporarily suspended.

As it turned out, all it took to deplatform a company that just partnered with a renowned medical and academic center like Ceders-Sinai in order to try bring potentially life-saving treatment to the world was a (politically) disgruntled New York Times reporter.

The reporter, Davey Alba, said on Twitter on April 25 that she reported a video promoting Heatlight to YouTube because it was proving to be very popular and shared on social networks by people asserting that it backs up Trumps idea throwing it out there that UV rays kill coronavirus. The research and video was posted before Trumps comments.

YouTube quickly obliged and removed the video, according to Albas tweet. It was in the meantime confirmed that the video has been deleted, with a shocking message replacing it saying the content violates YouTubes guidelines.

On April 26, Twitter user @ShoreProgress shared the news of this case in a tweet adding that Twitter had also decided to suspend Aytu BioSciences account, apparently for no other reason than to spite US President Donald Trump.

(The user backed the claim of the Twitter account suspension with a screenshot but it seems that the social giant has changed its mind and that the account is back online, at least for now.)

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