Donald Trump’s latest attempt to downplay the coronavirus crisis was met with resistance by Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday
’s latest attempt to downplay the coronavirus crisis was met with resistance by Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday, when both companies removed a post in which the president, arguing for schools to reopen, falsely claimed children to be “almost immune from this disease.” The post, a video clip from Trump’s appearance on Fox News earlier that day, was in violation of both platforms' policies around COVID-19 misinformation, NPR.
"This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation," said, a Facebook spokesperson. Research has shown that children are still susceptible to contracting and spreading COVID-19. While they tend to get infected less often and have milder symptoms than adults, kids have gotten seriously sick from the disease—some have even died, NPR notes.
over his baseless voter fraud allegations, Facebook has taken a more hands-off approach to Trump’s incendiary posts, a stance CEOParella’s statement adds to the chorus of unfounded GOP claims of anti-conservative bias on social media, baseless attacks that come as right-wing news and opinion—including conspiracy theories—continues tolast month, conservatives seem more concerned with Silicon Valley’s alleged “bias” than the potential antitrust issues involving big tech companies like Google and...
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