Facebook took down a post shared by President Donald Trump Wednesday from his Fox & Friends interview, citing their policy on coronavirus misinformation.
The post the president shared included the clip of his claim on Fox that children are “almost immune from this disease,” as he argued for school reopenings.
Facebook took down the post hours later. Per the Washington Post:
“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,” said Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone.
This is the first time Facebook has taken down anything from the president for violating the company’s policies on covid misinformation.
The move from Facebook comes in the wake of similar action by Twitter, which labeled a May tweet from Trump on mail-in ballots as misinformation.
The Trump campaign responded in a statement obtained by NBC News saying, “The President was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus. Another day, another display of Silicon Valley’s flagrant bias against this President, where the rules are only enforced in one direction. Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.”
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