Facebook, Twitter remove Trump coronavirus posts of Fox interview about kids being 'almost immune'

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It was the first time Facebook has removed a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policies on COVID-19 misinformation.

At issue: a video clip from an interview with Fox & Friends, which aired Wednesday morning, in which Trump said children should return to school because they are “almost immune" or “virtually immune” from the disease.

“The President was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus. Another day, another display of Silicon Valley’s flagrant bias against this President, where the rules are only enforced in one direction," Courtney Parella, deputy national press secretary for Trump's reelection campaign, said in a statement."Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.

The Fox interview was viewed nearly half a million times in the four hours before it was removed from Facebook. A link to Trump's Facebook post now redirects to a page that says:"This Content Isn't Available Right Now."

 

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There’d be no Facebook if they removed ALL “ non factual” content.

Good job Facebook! It's about time the liar in chief is being held accountable!

'It hardly affects children at all.'

Isn't it TOO Bad we can't ban him from TV TOO ? ! ? NO MORE Trump on ANY Media ANYWHERE ! ! Wouldn't THAT be a Great Start ? ! ?

Remove Trump permanently....

Bout time sucker berge got in the game.

Everyone seems okay with censorship... Think it will stop with Trump ?

Who made tweeter the authority on can 19

About time

JoeBidenHasDementia

Keep going. Funny he wants to gag everything yet he violates the most!

About time!

Thank you!! Facebook

😡

Bout time!

You can’t tell them. You have to SHOW them! . MediaBias censorship

Lol, yet you all cant publish an article without a hard left leaning opinion to it. Are your big bosses millenials from Venezuela?

ok ok

Censor everyone, even the president until all of our constitutional rights have been stripped away......brilliant idea. 🙄

what the hell is wrong with the media the truth is right in front of americans.

Waiting when his account is suspended

The best part is he has to actually delete a tweet so he can tweet again. He will be throwing a fit on Twitter tonight

diazbriseno Now can they just delete him from the WH vs waiting until November?

JenniferJJacobs Why doesn't facebook block those people who say socialism works? That is the biggest lie in the world.

Wow... Facebook is getting very serious now.

I've been blocked for 7 days from my Facebook account for commenting 'stupid Americans'...on giving trillions without oversight... Facebook called it hate speech...😡

Giving out misinformation can cost people their lives.

JenniferJJacobs And they were wrong. Spox statement is an incorrect quote of the President. Trump was right, again

JenniferJJacobs Lip service courtesy of Zuckerberg.

If Facebook had existed at the time, it would have removed (censored) the claims by Copernicus & Galileo that the earth went around the sun.

What an absolute fucking lunatic realDonaldTrump proves to be every single day.

Jeannet44682622 But that's true

Mad King Trump must be LIVID! 'How DARE they stop me from spouting my 💩'

Our lying conservative republican president. Only a traitor could like this guy 🤷‍♂️.

He continues to make shit up. 🙄

Thank you FB

You guys do know that page isn’t literally ran by Trump. He’s not on his laptop posting random things personally on antisocial media. Trump2020

This man is really getting out of hands

Let’s check in with Dr. Incompetent * Kids are virtually immune from COVID * Windmills cause cancer * inject people with disinfectant * Cart Golf is exercise * Big Macs with a Diet Coke chaser is a healthy diet * Take a malaria drug to fight off COVID * “It is what it is”

NotMyChild

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