Twitter suspends Trump account for posting misinformation about coronavirus
Facebook also reacted with security checks to a post from the US president in which he said that children are 'almost immune' to COVID-19.
Twitter reported that it will require Trump's campaign account to remove a post containing misinformation about the new coronavirus. You will not be able to tweet from the account until the message is deleted, according to the Washington Post.
It is a video of a Fox News interview - in which President Trump claims that children are "almost immune" to COVID-19 - violating the site's anti-disinformation rules, the company said.
For its part, Facebook also said that it removed the post from the president of the United States that contains the same interview.
This is the first time Facebook has removed a post from the president for violating company policies on disinformation surrounding COVID-19.
In that interview, the Republican said that the coronavirus pandemic is "disappearing," while the United States continues to see tens of thousands of new cases daily and recorded 1,380 deaths on Tuesday.
“This (coronavirus) is going to go away. It will go as all things go. "The United States is in" very good condition, "he added, while promoting economic indicators.
Twitter tagged, for the first time in May, two Trump tweets for containing information that needed to be verified, in response to which the Republican launched a threat against the social network.
"Twitter is completely oppressive FREE EXPRESSION, and I, as President, will not allow it!", Wrote the president.
In another message he accused the social network of interfering in the presidential elections: "Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 presidential elections. It says that my statement on the mail ballots, which will lead to corruption and massive fraud, is incorrect. , based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and Amazon Washington Post. "
In July, the same social network temporarily suspended the account of a son of President Donald Trump after he shared a video riddled with unsubstantiated claims about the coronavirus.
Many Republicans reacted outraged, flooding social media with exclamations of "censorship" after Donald Trump Jr.'s account was suspended for sharing the video, which was viewed millions of times online in a matter of hours, including the president himself , before Facebook, Twitter and YouTube blocked it.
These social media platforms have zero tolerance policies in place for messages that spread potentially harmful falsehoods about the coronavirus.
In July, the same network disabled a campaign video retweeted by Trump, following a complaint from the Linkin Park band about the unauthorized use of their music, according to AFP.
