Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had reined in access to Donald Trump Jr's account for 12 hours because a tweet he had posted violated the social media site's misinformation policy on COVID-19.
Twitter Inc said Tuesday that it had restricted access to Donald Trump Jr's account for 12 hours because a tweet it had posted violated the disinformation policy of the social media site on COVID-19.
The oldest son of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, published on Monday a video of doctors talking about the drug hydroxychloroquine, which was removed by Twitter.
The video was also removed by Facebook Inc and YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc, after racking up millions of views, for breaking its rules on COVID-19 misinformation.
President Trump also retweeted a post Monday night that contained a link to the video, and accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, and Democrats of suppressing the use of the hydroxychloroquine drug to treat the new drug. coronavirus.
The tweets shared by Trump were removed as part of Twitter's compliance action file.
Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and has worked with six American presidents, said Tuesday that "he has not been misleading the American public under any circumstances."
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