Twitter said it will require President Trump to remove a tweet that contains coronavirus misinformation.
Facebook also took action against the same harmful content. It was the first time Facebook took action against Trump content and removed the false information from view.
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Wednesday took down a post by U.S. President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.https://t.co/pJ6f9ICv65
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 6, 2020
Reuters: The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are "almost immune" to COVID-19. It was the first time Facebook had removed a Trump post for coronavirus misinformation.
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 6, 2020
From the Washington Post:
Breaking: Twitter said it will require President Trump’s campaign account to remove a post containing coronavirus misinformation, banning the account from tweeting until it does so.
Team Trump’s tweet of a video clip from a Fox News interview — in which President Trump said that children are “almost immune” from covid-19 — violates the site’s rules against misinformation, the company said. Twitter hid the post and said the account will not be able to tweet again until he deletes it, although it can appeal the decision.
Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley said the tweet "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.”
Read more at the WaPo: 'Facebook, Twitter penalize Trump for posts containing coronavirus misinformation'
Reuters: A tweet containing the video that was posted by the Trump campaign's @TeamTrump account and shared by the president was also later hidden by Twitter Inc for breaking its COVID-19 misinformation rules.
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 6, 2020
This not what happened, per Twitter spokesperson:
The @TeamTrump account was briefly locked out, not @realDonaldTrump which retweeted the post that violated Twitter's COVID-19 misinformation guidelines
President Trump was never banned from tweeting. https://t.co/DZA2ZBFh5x
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) August 6, 2020
