Facebook has removed a post by US President Donald Trump for downplaying COVID-19 danger by saying the season flu is more deadly, in a rare step against the American leader by the leading social network.
Facebook on Tuesday removed a post by US President Donald Trump for downplaying COVID-19 danger by saying the season flu is more deadly, in a rare step against the American leader by the leading social network.
Twitter added a notice to the tweeted version of Mr Trump's post , saying the message was left up due to public interest but that it violated rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.Mr Trump checked out of hospital Monday after four days of emergency treatment for COVID-19, pulling off his mask the moment he reached the White House and vowing to quickly get back on the campaign trail.
That was the first time the leading social network pulled a post from the president's page for being dangerously incorrect. Mr Trump has unleashed an array of misleading medical speculation, criticism for his own top virus expert and praise for an eccentric preacher-doctor touting conspiracy theories.
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