Within a week, the conspiracy left the cluster of right-wing accounts it initially was created by and was later spread by Brazilian Twitter accounts, hence making the conspiracy theory an international concern. Tweets also began emerging in Japanese and Arabic.

International Spread of #FilmYourHospital

The main figures behind the early spread of the #FilmYourHospital misinformation were right-wing politicians and prominent individuals on social media who had a large following.

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#FilmYourHospital was a conspiracy theory which argued that the COVID-19 pandemic was fake. People essentially took photographs of hospitals' parking lots to "prove" that COVID-19 was a (politically-motivated) hoax.

Internet and the Spread of Misinformation: #FilmYourHospital

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2020). Going viral: How a single tweet spawned a COVID-19 conspiracy theory on Twitter. Big Data & Society, 7(2), 1-9.

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