8/5/2020

COVID-19/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook removed a video post from President Donald Trump’s personal page on Wednesday that included a segment from a Fox News interview in which the president said 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,’ Andy Stone, a Facebook policy spokesperson, said…

The action is the first time Facebook has removed a Trump post for COVID-19 misinformation and marks a rare instance in which it has been willing to censor the president.”

-Dylan Byers, “Facebook removes Trump post over coronavirus misinformation,” nbcnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020