Dear Ali, Please remove this Trump tweet. Love, Dad.
Posted on 08/05/2020 7:36:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Twitter has locked the Trump campaign’s account over a clip containing misinformation about the novel coronavirus, saying the account will only be able to resume tweeting if it deletes the tweet in question.
The clip comes from a “Fox & Friends” interview and features the president claiming children are “almost immune” from the virus. The same excerpt was removed from Facebook earlier Wednesday.
The tweet “is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation,” Twitter spokesperson Liz Kelley told the Washington Post. “The account owner will be required to remove the tweet before they can tweet again.”
The campaign has the option to appeal the decision.
The move by Twitter comes after several incidents in recent months in which it penalized the president’s personal account. The platform previously flagged a tweet about mail-in voting as containing misleading claims about an election. Another saying looters would be shot during unrest after the death of George Floyd was flagged as promoting violence. A third, featuring an edit of a clip of a Black and white toddler embracing, was removed for containing “manipulated media” due to the addition of a fictitious CNN chyron.
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None of this has to do with “misinformation”. They’re just pure evil.
Big Technology censoring Trump to protect Big Pharma.
“Twitter” knows what is and isn’t misinformation?
I bet Twitter censors references to the fact that Anthony Fauci caused the pandemic by paying for a gain of function experiment at the Wuhan laboratory.
Keep going assholes, because we are gonna tear you playhouse down.
Twitter needs to lose its protection—If it is a content provider, which seems to be what they are attempting here, then hold them accountable for all content. Otherwise, they need to be hands off on content.
Well I remember Twitter shutting off all that misinformation about Trump’s Russia connection…
Wait a minute!
Twitter will have to prove it is ‘misinformation’. If not, they must reinstate the campaign’s account.
Nobody at Twitter or anywhere else, can prove that Trump’s claim is false.
BTW, ‘almost immune’ is not the same as immune completely, so there again, Twitter is asking for trouble.
Time to issue an executive order against Twitter’s willy-nilly rules.
I only accept one outcome in November 2020 - a Trump victory.
Anything else is war.
Twitter has a medical review board?
Btw, Trump is right. Based on the science to date.
Antitrust.
Fraudci’s daughter at work. She is a self appointed ex spurt who knows all.
In my circle of friends and family I know 4 People who have the virus and their cases are mild. I know of zero children with the virus
Time to keep monitoring the situation...
I feel like it’s time to grab pitch forks and torches.
Twitter, Facebook, Snap-Chat, Instagram.
Break ‘em all up. They’re not impartial platforms, as they profess.
They’re very partisan PUBLISHERS !
Some Kids get the virus.
They get if from adults, not other kids
With very very rare exceptions, kids that get the virus AND get sick are only mildly affected,.
Why....because kids have some kind of natural immunity.
Trump is taking notes..
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