Twitter removes a tweet that had been retweeted by President Trump that falsely said that there was a cure for the coronavirus.
Twitter said early Tuesday morning,"Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy."
Trump also retweeted tweets defending the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine, including one that accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, of misleading the public by dismissing the drug. "I have not been misleading the public under any circumstances," Fauci responded on ABC's"Good Morning America" on Tuesday morning when asked for his reaction to Trump's retweets.
Fauci reiterated that the"overwhelming prevailing clinical trials" that have looked at the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine have indicated that it's"not effective" in treating the coronavirus.He conceded, for example, last week at one of his restarted coronavirus White House briefings that it will likely"get worse before it gets better." The president has also been touting the importance of wearing masks after dismissing them for months.
Twitter has been much more aggressive in recent months in either removing tweets posted by the president, fact-checking them in real time or even placing warning labels over them.in May when he claimed there was"NO WAY" an election with boosted mail-in voting would be legitimate. Twitter added a fact-check label to both tweets.that asked federal regulators to revisit a 1996 law that protects websites from liability for what their users post.
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