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Facebook removes Trump post falsely claiming kids are "almost immune" to covid-19

2020-08-05T23:04:25.282Z


While this is not the first time Facebook has removed content from the President's page, it is the first time that it has been removed due to its disinformation rules from covid-19, Facebook said.


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(CNN) - Facebook said Wednesday that it had removed a post from President Donald Trump's page for containing false claims about covid-19.

The post was a video of an interview the president gave to Fox News on Wednesday morning.

"This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune to covid-19, which is a violation of our policies on covid misinformation," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement Wednesday night. .

Stone added that the specific comments that had conflicted with Facebook's rules were Trump's false claims that children are almost immune to the virus.

The same clip also appears to have been posted to Twitter by the Trump campaign, which was later shared from the president's main account.

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- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2020

While this is not the first time Facebook has removed content from the President's page, it is the first time that it has been removed due to its disinformation rules from covid-19, Facebook said.

In June, Facebook removed ads from the Trump campaign for using a Nazi symbol.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced intense criticism, including from his own staff, for failing to take action against Trump's incendiary posts about racial protests taking place across the United States.

CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign, Twitter, and Fox News for comment.

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Source: cnnespanol

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