JAKARTA – Facebook and Twitter were forced to delete a video uploaded by the President of the United States (US) Donald Trump. Because Trump has again shared a video that contains false information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Launch from Among, the upload is a video featuring an interview with Fox & Friends the day before. In his upload, Trump stated that children were almost immune to Covid-19.
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“This video contains a false claim that a group of people is immune to COVID-19, which violates our policy on the dangers of COVID-19 misinformation,” said a Facebook spokesperson, Thursday, August 6.
The same thing was done on Twitter, when the Trump election campaign team account uploaded a similar interview video. Twitter took down the video, for violating the rules regarding misinformation related to COVID-19.
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– The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 5, 2020
Neither the Trump campaign team nor the White House would comment on the video content suspension. However as reported ReutersInstead, Trump reiterated his claim that the virus had little impact on children.
“The kids are coping very well. If you look at the numbers, in terms of mortality and mortality, kids at a certain age, their immune systems are very, very tough and strong. They seem to be coping really well and this is according to the claims of every statistic, “said Trump.
In the United States, Covid-19 cases until Thursday 6 August morning, based on Worldometers data, occupy the first position with the most positive cases, namely 4,973,514 positive cases, with 55,094 new cases over the past 24 hours. A total of 2,529,961 patients in the US have recovered, and 161,596 people died.
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