The video accumulated over 17 million views during the eight hours it was hosted on Facebook, with over 185,000 concurrent viewers.<\/p>\n
The livestream had accumulated over 17 million views by the time of its censorship by Facebook.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In terms of viral velocity, the post was beating content from many other prominent accounts on Facebook today, including Hillary Clinton, Rev. Franklin Graham, and Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n Over 185,000 viewers were concurrently watching the stream when it aired live Monday afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n The event,\u00a0hosted<\/a>\u00a0by the organization America\u2019s Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and made up of medical doctors, came together to address what the group calls a \u201cmassive disinformation campaign\u201d about the coronavirus. Norman also spoke at the event.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease,\u201d\u00a0reads<\/a>\u00a0the event\u2019s information page.<\/p>\n The event was organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve removed this video for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19,\u201d a Facebook company spokesman, Andy Stone, told Breitbart News. The company did not specify what portion of the video it ruled to be \u201cfalse information,\u201d who it consulted to make that ruling, and on what basis it was made.<\/p>\n Stone replied to\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0tech columnist Kevin Roose on Twitter regarding the video:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/07\/image__2_.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n