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Facebook, Twitter remove Trump video for spreading harmful coronavirus misinformation – Source CNET Tech

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Facebook’s rules against coronavirus misinformation also apply to politicians.


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Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday pulled down videos posted on President Donald Trump’s accounts that included a Fox News interview in which the president says children are “almost immune” to the illness caused by the novel coronavirus and have “much stronger immune systems.”

“Children are almost, and I would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease,” Trump said in the video, posted Wednesday, while he pushes for the reopening of schools this fall. 

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