San Francisco (CNN Business) Twitter said on Wednesday it had restricted President Donald Trump's campaign from tweeting after its account shared a video containing false claims about the coronavirus.
The tweet, a video of Trump's interview with Fox News in which he said children are "almost immune" to the virus, "is in violation of the Twitter Rules on Covid-19 misinformation," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. "The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again."
The account appeared to have the ability to tweet following Twitter's statement, suggesting the campaign had complied with the order and removed the video. Twitter confirmed to CNN that the campaign's account can tweet again.
Just hours before, Facebook removed a post from Trump's main page featuring the same interview for similar reasons.
Courtney Parella, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, said the President was "stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus," echoing the statement she shared after Facebook's removal.
mjames74 on August 6th, 2020 at 03:31 UTC »
Well he's been bitching about fake news for years, so he should be happy Twitter is doing something about it finally.
wei_ping on August 6th, 2020 at 03:16 UTC »
I’m going to say something that should make every cognitive dissonance alarm bell you have go off.
Not only do I think I would be a better president than Trump, but every person I have a relationship would be a better President than the sitting President of the United States.
That’s an absolutely absurd statement, right? For context, I could maybe name a half dozen world leaders off the top of my head...that’s it. Two days ago I couldn’t point to Beirut on an unlabeled map. I wouldn’t be able to understand a 300 page health care bill, much less write one.
Those are things that should be the bar, but they aren’t. The questions now-a-days are things like “do you trust your gut over the opinions of experts?”, “Is a core part of your platform hatred for roughly half the country (in this case, Democrats)?”, and “Would you abuse the position of your office to enrich yourself personally?”
If you were president, and you had access to basically every expert on the face of the Earth, MONTHS into this pandemic, is there any excuse for saying children are ”basically immune” to this virus?
This is not a case of a bad President. I’d be an objectively terrible president...I don’t know shit about politics. This is a case of a bad human being inexplicably becoming president, and that is far worse. The country would be better off with me, or anyone I interact with on a regular basis.
NverEndingPastaBowel on August 6th, 2020 at 02:14 UTC »
It is what it is.