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Leading article Australia

Speccie? Banned!

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

Well, we must be doing something right. In banning the beleaguered Liberal backbench MP Craig Kelly for seven days, the thought police at Facebook used as their excuse, among other postings, Mr Kelly’s re-posting of a Spectator Australia Covid story and cartoon from August last year. And what was so offensive about the article by Rebecca Weisser that it had to be censored? The piece, ‘No guts, no glory’, detailed the work by Australia’s highly regarded Professor Thomas Borody to develop a successful early treatment for Covid-19  based on ivermectin.

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