Twitter and Facebook Block Trump Video, Citing Covid Misinformation

Trump campaign was temporarily banned from posting on Twitter
In clip, president said kids are “virtually immune” to virus

Watch: Twitter Inc. is said to have banned President Trump’s campaign from tweeting until they remove a post that suggests children are almost immune to the coronavirus. Facebook Inc. has earlier removed the same clip from its platform. (Source: Bloomberg)

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By Kurt Wagner and Sarah Frier

August 6, 2020 at 1:02 AM UTC

Updated on

August 6, 2020 at 2:51 PM UTC

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Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to U.S. President Donald Trump for violating their policies on coronavirus misinformation.

The Trump re-election campaign’s Twitter account, @TeamTrump, was briefly banned from sending new tweets after it posted a clip of an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News in which he said children were “virtually immune” from the Covid-19 coronavirus. “[Children] don’t have a problem, they just don’t have a problem,” Trump said in the video as part of an argument for why schools should reopen. “It doesn’t have an impact on them. I’ve watched some doctors say they’re totally immune.”