Facebook removes Trump post due to coronavirus misinformation
For the first time, Facebook has removed a post on President Trump's personal page that spread misinformation about the coronavirus.
The post featured a clip of Trump's interview with Fox News that aired on Wednesday morning. Trump claimed that children are "almost immune" or "virtually immune" from COVID-19, and as such should be able to go back to school in the fall. Children can in fact transmit the virus and have died of it.
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Earlier Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that the Trump campaign has run several ads on Facebook with false claims about former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. The social network's independent fact checkers flagged the ads, but their findings were never shared with users.
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