Facebook, Twitter take aim at Trump ‘misinformation’

Only days after proclaiming a sober new tone on the coronavirus pandemic, Trump reverted to spreading misleading medical information, criticising his top expert and promoting conspiracy theories. Twitter took the rare step of removing clips tweeted by Trump from a video earlier deleted by Facebook in which a group of doctors tells Americans that masks are unnecessary and that hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, can cure the Covid-19 virus. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook and Twitter took aim at US President Donald Trump and his campaign on Aug 5 over a video post in which he contended that children are “almost immune” to the coronavirus, a claim they said amounted to “misinformation”.

In an extraordinary move, Facebook removed the clip from the president’s account – the first time it has taken down one of his posts for violating its content rules.