Apologies for hijacking your comment, but who or what flagged imperio59's relatively benign comment? I can't respond directly to that.

Kind of weird that this was shut down so quickly.

I didn’t flag it, but I probably would have. The doctor (Peter McCullough) mentioned has been very vocal in spreading debunked information, including:

* Telling people to use Hydroxychloroquine to treat covid

* Claiming that there’s no evidence of the novel coronavirus being spread asymptotically

* Claimed without evidence that the covid-19 vaccines have been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

And spread or supported basically every other heterodox-sphere conspiracy theory, including that it was a “plandemic”, ivermectin nonsense, etc.

This is HackerNews, not ZeroHedge.

You can try vouching it by clicking on its timestamp and then "vouch". Both mods and the community have the power to flag comments; mod decisions can't be overridden, but community decisions can. The fact that it's [flagged][dead] instead of [flagged] implies that the community flagged it, though it being collapsed seems like a new change that might indicate moderator intervention.