Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign from tweeting after it shared a video of the president spreading COVID-19 misinformation – By Tyler Sonnemaker (Business Insider) / Aug 5 2020
- Twitter briefly blocked the Trump campaign’s account from tweeting Wednesday after it violated the company’s policies against COVID-19 misinformation, a company representative told Business Insider.
- The campaign tweeted a Fox News interview in which President Donald Trump falsely claimed children were “almost immune” to the disease.
- Trump himself also tweeted a link to the video, which has since been blocked, but the company did not take action against the president’s account.
- In an apparent first, Facebook took down a similar post by Trump earlier for violating its own COVID-19 misinformation policies.
Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign’s account from tweeting Wednesday after it posted a video of the president spreading COVID-19 misinformation, a company representative told Business Insider.
The campaign tweeted a video, which has since been removed, of President Donald Trump giving a Fox News interview in which he falsely claimed children were “almost immune” to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“The Tweet you referenced is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation,” the representative said. “The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again.”
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