Facebook, YouTube, Others Remove Clips for 'Planet Lockdown' Film

While thousands of families grieved the loss of loved ones and the United States’ coronavirus death toll surpassed 350,000 in early January and continued to rise, a film parroting false claims about the pandemic, “Planet Lockdown,” began to spread to millions of social media users. Now, tech giants including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok began scrubbing promotional clips of the film from their platforms for violating rules against misinformation.