There was one article on ivermectin on FR around the end of March or early April. At that time I was reading hundreds of articles and thousands or posts on FR about COVID. From a susceptibility to scabies after living in Afghanistan, I knew about ivermectin and even had a tube of horse paste from about 2018. Not knowing at that time how safe ivermectin is, I preferred the external treatment of permethrin, which worked. (I paid $20 for a 1% OTC Kix, but later got a 10% animal solution I could dilute to 2% with skin cream).
So I was watching to see if ivermectin would work. It wasn’t until around September that more articles were on FR about ivermectin and it began to be recognized as a prophylactic and cure.
And yes, from then on the media and government lied about its safety and potential effectiveness.
Definitely a miracle drug.