It was the first time Facebook has removed a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policies on COVID-19 misinformation.
At issue: a video clip from an interview with Fox & Friends, which aired Wednesday morning, in which Trump said children should return to school because they are “almost immune" or “virtually immune” from the disease.
“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," Courtney Parella, deputy national press secretary for Trump's reelection campaign, said in a statement."Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.
The Fox interview was viewed nearly half a million times in the four hours before it was removed from Facebook. A link to Trump's Facebook post now redirects to a page that says:"This Content Isn't Available Right Now."
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