Instagram flagged one of Madonna's post as 'False Information' after she shared a viral video promoting disinformation about COVID-19

• Madonna shared a video on Instagram promoting the false claim that there is a cure for COVID-19 and that masks are unnecessary.
• The recording artist said that Stella Immanuel, one of the people in the video, is "my hero."
• Immanuel believes that the world is run by "reptilians" and that popular medicines are made from alien DNA.
• Madonna's post was labeled "False Information" by Instagram but still racked up over 112,000 hits in three hours.

"The Truth will set us all Free!" recording artist Madonna posted on Instagram, sharing a video featuring crank doctors promoting false and dubious information about COVID-19.

The social network immediately labeled the post "False Information," but that didn't stop it from racking up over 112,000 views in three hours. By 10:50 p.m. PDT, the post was no longer on her page.

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As Business Insider previously reported, the video was created by a conservative group that falsely claims that masks are unnecessary and that there is in fact a cure for the coronavirus. There are currently no known cures for COVID-19 the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 4 million in the US and killed nearly 150,000 Americans.

The video was removed by Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — and shared by President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.

In her post sharing the video, Madonna declared Stella Immanuel, a prominent voice in the video, "my hero."

As The Daily Beast reported, Immanuel, who identifies herself as a physician and appears to be a licensed pediatrician in Texas, claims that the government is run by "reptilians" — an old anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about a global governing cabal, repackaged with a science-fiction facade — and that medicines are made out of alien DNA.

The video in which Immanuel and others spoke was organized by the right-wing group Tea Party Patriots, The Daily Beast noted, "which is backed by wealthy Republican donors."

Madonna's representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.