When you've got the CDC calling it horse medicine you've got less than honest communication. That's like calling ibuprofen horse medicine. Even the links provided by Bleu were referencing obvious misuse, not danger inherent to the drug in itself. Yet people think it's a clearly dangerous misapplication of horse dewormer. That's disingenuous and is to say nothing of the overt fabrications in the media. So yes, there was a disinformation campaign that did nothing but further existing mistrust and polarization along ideological lines.