Facebook deletes Donald Trump's post falsely claiming children are immune to Covid-19

Facebook has deleted a post by Donald Trump for containing false claims about Covid-19.The post featured a link of a video of an interview the President granted Fox News on Wednesday morning,August 5, in which the president claimed children are ‘virtually immune’ to the virus."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," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said in a statement Wednesday evening.  It was the first time Facebook took action to remove content posted by the president based on its Coronavirus-misinformation policy. Courtney Parella, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, said in response to Facebook's takedown that the President was "stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus"Later on Wednesday, Twitter said it had frozen Trump campaign account, @TeamTrump account because it posted the same interview excerpt, which was then shared from the President's main account.A Twitter spokesman said the @TeamTrump tweet "is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation"."The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again." The post Facebook deletes Donald Trump's post falsely claiming children are immune to Covid-19 appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.

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