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Facebook, Twitter remove Trump clip over Covid misinformation
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IANS | 06 Aug, 2020
Facebook and Twitter have removed a video clip from an interview in
which US President Donald Trump claimed children were "almost immune" to
coronavirus.
The social media platforms said the statement by
the US President made during the interview to Fox News violated their
rules related to Covid-19 misinformation.
While Facebook removed
the clip posted by the President, Twitter briefly suspended a Trump
campaign Twitter account, @TeamTrump, for tweeting the video clip which
contained the same claim.
The Trump campaign Twitter account became active again after the tweet with the clip was apparently removed.
"This
video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from
COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID
misinformation," a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying by the
BBC.
This is the first time Facebook removed a post by Trump for violating its Covid-19 misinformation policy.
A Twitter spokesperson said that the tweet by @TeamTrump was in "violation of the Twitter Rules on Covid-19 misinformation".
However,
the microblogging platform, which is facing allegations of being biased
against conservative politicians, earlier determined that a post by
billionaire Elon Musk which suggested that children were "essentially
immune" to coronavirus did not violate its rules.
Studies have
shown that while children can get the disease, their risk of suffering
serious complications due to the disease is lower compared to adults.
This was not the first time Twitter took action on a Trump post.
In May, Twitter labelled two Trump tweets that made false claims about mail-in ballots in California.
Facebook
also removed a Trump campaign ad featuring a symbol used by Nazis for
political dissenters, saying the ad violated its policies.
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