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On Feb 24th, 2020, Nevada @GovSisolak signed an order restricting the use of anti-malaria drug #hydrocholoroquine for coronavirus treatment to inpatient settings only. Right-wing Twitter accounts quickly began misrepresenting this order as an outright ban.
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To study the spread of the "Sisolak bans hydrochloroquine" narrative, we downloaded tweets containing at least one word from each list (plurals etc included):
- malaria, malarial, chloroquine, hydrochloroquine,
- nevada, sisolak, governor
- ban, bar, forbid, outlaw, "not allow"
- malaria, malarial, chloroquine, hydrochloroquine,
- nevada, sisolak, governor
- ban, bar, forbid, outlaw, "not allow"
Sisolak announced the order restricting the use of #hydrocholoquine on Twitter at 3:49 PDT on 3/24. Tweets misrepresenting it as a "ban" began appearing 21 minutes later, possibly fueled by the Las Vegas Sun using similar verbiage in its headline (which has since been corrected.)
