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Judi Lynn

(160,588 posts) Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:41 PM Aug 2020

Facebook removed a Trump post because it violated the company's policies banning 'harmful COVID misi

Source: Business Insider

Facebook removed a Trump post because it violated the company's policies banning 'harmful COVID misinformation'
Tyler Sonnemaker 27 minutes ago

For the first time, Facebook has completely removed a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policies against COVID-19 misinformation.

Trump posted a video Wednesday of his interview with Fox News, which CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan captured in a screenshot before it was removed from the platform, where he falsely claimed that children are "almost immune" from the disease.

"They have a much stronger immune system than [adults]," Trump said in the video, which he also tweeted.

"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," a Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removed-trump-post-containing-harmful-covid-misinformation-2020-8?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=referral

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Facebook removed a Trump post because it violated the company's policies banning 'harmful COVID misi (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2020 OP

has hell frozen over? DBoon Aug 2020 #1

About time. Mark. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Aug 2020 #2

Will all the Fox News believers boycott? underpants Aug 2020 #3

No. They will continue to spread lies and innuendo on it and Zuckerberg will do nothing. NNadir Aug 2020 #8

While they're at it. C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #4

He's gonna go full-on idiot soon and say something like LanternWaste Aug 2020 #5

But the #MAGA #Trumpsters will believe Dangerous #trump and the kids will suffer--or die. riversedge Aug 2020 #6

Good Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 #7

Easy underhand pitch Red Mountain Aug 2020 #9

Not Trump's Twitter Suburban Warrior Aug 2020 #10

about time . AllaN01Bear Aug 2020 #11

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube pull Trump posts over coronavirus misinformation Eugene Aug 2020 #12

"They have a much stronger immune system than [adults]," Donald Trump M.D. Botany Aug 2020 #13

DBoon

(22,383 posts)

1. has hell frozen over?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:48 PM

Aug 2020

Facebook removing a trump post?

IllinoisBirdWatcher

(2,315 posts)

2. About time. Mark. n/t

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:09 PM

Aug 2020

underpants

(182,849 posts)

3. Will all the Fox News believers boycott?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:15 PM

Aug 2020

No of course not. Where else are they going to get their PragerU, Dinesh D’Souza, and people yelling from inside their cars videos?

NNadir

(33,534 posts)

8. No. They will continue to spread lies and innuendo on it and Zuckerberg will do nothing.

Reply to underpants (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:02 PM

Aug 2020

Among millions upon millions of posts from "Pizzagate" on down, they couldn't care less about truth.

In fact this representation that they have banned one post is designed to tell the lie that they do care about the truth.

They don't.

C_U_L8R

(45,012 posts)

4. While they're at it.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:16 PM

Aug 2020

I trust they'll zap the dishonest and deceptive Trump ad with doctored Biden footage.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

5. He's gonna go full-on idiot soon and say something like

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:46 PM

Aug 2020

"I'm comforted by the fact that only the elderly are susceptible to it..."

I think the October surprise is he gives up any renaming pretense, and goes after his own base's parents.

riversedge

(70,264 posts)

6. But the #MAGA #Trumpsters will believe Dangerous #trump and the kids will suffer--or die.

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Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:57 PM

Aug 2020

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,101 posts)

7. Good

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:58 PM

Aug 2020

It was a rather idiot thing to say. Stop trying to hurt the nation's children dotard.

Red Mountain

(1,737 posts)

9. Easy underhand pitch

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:04 PM

Aug 2020

Trying to make themselves look above the fray.

Meanwhile.....Instagram is steering searches to make Biden look bad.

Suburban Warrior

(405 posts)

10. Not Trump's Twitter

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:17 PM

Aug 2020

It was the Trump Campaign Twitter

AllaN01Bear

(18,307 posts)

11. about time .

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Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:33 PM

Aug 2020

Eugene

(61,919 posts)

12. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube pull Trump posts over coronavirus misinformation

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:55 AM

Aug 2020

Source: Reuters

TECHNOLOGY NEWS AUGUST 5, 2020 / 6:33 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube pull Trump posts over coronavirus misinformation

Elizabeth Culliford
4 MIN READ

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Wednesday took down a post by U.S. President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.

The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19.

“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,” a Facebook spokesman said.

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A Twitter spokesman said the @TeamTrump account owner would be required to remove the tweet before they could tweet again.

YouTube, through a spokesman, said it had also pulled down the video for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policies. However, the original interview remains available on the Fox News page on the platform. YouTube did not immediately respond to requests to clarify which videos were taken down.

-snip-

Botany

(70,539 posts)

13. "They have a much stronger immune system than [adults]," Donald Trump M.D.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:08 AM

Aug 2020

n/t

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