Facebook removed a video President Trump posted to his account Wednesday, citing its rules against false claims about the coronavirus. The decision to remove the video signifies a brand-new instructions for Facebook, which has been taking incremental actions recently to distance itself from the perception that the business deliberately turns a blind eye to the president’s possibly hazardous habits.
The video in question was a clip from a Fox News segment from Wednesday morning in which the president makes the dubious claim that kids are “nearly immune” to COVID-19 While much remains unidentified about the novel coronavirus, children can contract COVID-19 and are thought to be able to spread it to others, even without symptoms.
” This video includes incorrect claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is an infraction of our policies around damaging COVID false information,” Facebook’s Liz Bourgeois stated in a statement supplied to TechCrunch.
Twitter also eliminated a link to the very same video clip, which the official Trump Twitter account @TeamTrump shared previously on Wednesday. Links to the tweet now point Twitter users to a message that the tweet violated Twitter’s guidelines and is no longer available.
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