“In addition, there has been an association between scrotal swelling and congestion to having COVID-19. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, told People. “It is just not true that getting the COVID-19 vaccine is associated with infertility in either males or females,” Dr. Minaj said the reason she didn’t travel to Monday night’s Met Gala was because the organizers required attendees to be fully vaccinated.Īnti-vaxxers have claimed that COVID-19 vaccines cause impotence and related issues, but those claims have been widely debunked, and the real threat of swollen testicles actually comes from contracting COVID-19 itself. In other tweets Monday, Minaj said she was ultimately very likely to get the vaccine because it would be required for her to tour, but she added that she was doing research first to ensure that the vaccine was safe. Minaj’s tweet was likely not censored because, per Twitter’s own rules on COVID misinformation, it doesn’t “advance a claim of fact, expressed in definitive terms” but instead is viewed as a “personal anecdote,” which does not violate Twitter’s policies. “The Tweets you referenced are not in violation of the Twitter Rules,” a spokesperson told VICE News. “Nicki Minaj just fired off 22 million red pills,” a user called New World Warrior wrote, referring to the process of converting people into conspiracy theorists.ĭespite the seemingly obvious misinformation contained in her post, Twitter has decided not to take it down or even apply a label to the tweet directing Minaj’s followers to better information about the vaccines and their side effects. Others welcomed what they viewed as her support of the anti-vax community.
“Is this Nicky Minaj for real? I'd be impressed, of course, everyone gets a second chance, but I'm wondering since she's illuminati,” one commentator on the messaging app Telegram wrote.Īnother wrote: “When degenerates like Minaj start making sense, you know the world is in a bad way.”
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