Twitter, Facebook Delete World Leaders’ Misleading Coronavirus Posts. Could Trump Be Next?

up oversight of misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms, taking more direct measures to identify and take down misleading propaganda, and over the weekend, invoked their broadening oversight to force the removal of posts by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Both companies have previously been loath to remove content posted by world leaders even if their posts were demonstrably false.

its terms of service to expressly disallow content that “goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.”by the Brazilian president were removed that overhyped the effectiveness of the treatment hydroxychloroquine. Facebook followed suit on Monday by removing the video from Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram.

The deletion of Bolsonaro’s posts comes on the heels of Twitter removing a post last week by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduroa homemade “natural brew” treatment for the coronavirus. Maduro complained he was being censored by the company.

...look an awful lot like things (Impeached President) Trump has been saying himself.

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