Facebook and Twitter sanction Trump for post claiming kids are ‘virtually immune’ to coronavirus

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Facebook and Twitter sanction Trump for post claiming kids are ‘virtually immune’ to coronavirus
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Facebook removed a post from President Trump’s account for spreading misinformation on Covid19, the first time the social media giant has done so related to the coronavirus pandemic

Twitter has also flagged content on Trump’s account, including a fake CNN clip that he tweeted in June. Twitter marked that video as “synthetic and manipulated media.”“The President was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus,” a Trump campaign spokeswoman, Courtney Parella, said in a statement to POLITICO. “Another day, another display of Silicon Valley’s flagrant bias against this President, where the rules are only enforced in one direction.

Trump has repeatedly asserted that children should be able to return to schools for in-person instruction, claiming that keeping them at home would be more detrimental to their health than going to school. During his daily White House coronavirus news briefings, Trump regularly says that children are “virtually immune” from the disease because of the lower death rates among younger people compared with older adults.

But opening schools leaves adult faculty and staff at risk of coming in contact with the virus, as well as parents and other family members at home. Trump’s push to open the schools has met

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