Twitter stops Trump campaign from tweeting again until false coronavirus claim is deleted
Donald Trump's campaign Twitter account must remove a post containing misinformation about Covid-19 before it is allowed to post, the platform announced on Wednesday.
The post from Team Trump contains footage from an interview with Fox News in which the president falsely claims that children are "almost immune" from the disease, a remark he walked back during a White House briefing by saying that children are able to "throw it off" and are less likely to get sick compared to adults, though the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and other health experts have found that children are equally vulnerable to transmitting the virus.
Facebook removed a similar post from its platform on Wednesday, claiming that "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."
In a statement to The Washington Post, Twitter said the post "is in violation of the Twitter Rules on Covid-19 misinformation. The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again."
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