Washington(WA) DC [USA]: Tech giant Facebook(FB) & Twitter on Wed. taken quick action over US President Donald Trump for posts by him & his own officer campaign accounts in that he said that kids are “almost immune” to COVID-19.
“This video footage includes false says that a crowd of citizens is immune from COVID-19 that is a violation of our policies about harmful COVID misinformation,” Facebook(FB) spokesman Andy Stone stated on Wed. as quoted by CNN. The social media(SM) giant had eliminated a video clip of them from an interview he gave to Fox Information.
Similarly, Twitter too stated it’d frozen the @TeamTrump account(a/c) because it published the same interview excerpt, that President Trump’s account(a/c) revealed. A Twitter spokesman stated that the account(a/c) going to be frozen until the time that the tweet has been eliminated.
Courtney Parella, a spokesman for Trump’s campaign stated that Trump “has been stating a truth that kids are less susceptible to the COVID-19”.
As per CNN, she furthermore claimed that social media(SM) businesses of having a bias over the president furthermore calling them “not the arbiters of fact”.
As per the Washington(WA) Post within the eliminated video footage, President Trump could be heard in a phone interview informing educational institutions must open. He goes on to say, “In case you look in kids, kids are almost — & I’d almost say definitely — however almost immune from this disease,” & that they’ve stricter immune systems.
Previously in Jun, Facebook(FB) eliminated ads run by this Trump campaign for utilizing a Nazi symbol.
Over 240,000 kids within the United States were reported with COVID-19, as per the federal Centres for Disease Curb & Prevention.