Twitter withdrew on Monday evening a video posted by US President Donald Trump, which disseminated false information about the new coronavirus, we learned from the social network on Tuesday.
"The tweets accompanying the video violate our policy on disinformation on Covid-19", told AFP a spokesperson who refused to give more information, in particular on the number of people who could watch the video.
The video had already been removed by Facebook on Monday evening, said a spokesperson for the world's leading social network.
A video that claims masks are not necessary
"We deleted this video because it was sharing false information about cures and treatments for Covid-19," the spokesperson explained.
This video showed a group of medics making misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Washington Post , more than 14 million people watched it via Facebook.
Then, hours later, President Donald Trump tweeted multiple clips of the same video to his 84.2 million subscribers. The video claims the masks are not necessary to stop the disease.
For half an hour, according to the American daily, Donald Trump also shared 14 tweets in defense of the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that the president has promoted on several occasions but which several scientific studies have shown to be ineffective in treatment of Covid-19.
Not the first sanction against Donald Trump on his favorite network
Twitter is Donald Trump's main communication platform, but in recent weeks, the network has distanced itself, not hesitating to sanction the president's tweets.
For example, Twitter had pinned on June 23 the American president with a mention indicating that one of his tweets “violated” the rules of the network relating to “inappropriate behavior”, while leaving the possibility of reading it. Some time before, the platform had reported as misleading remarks by Donald Tump on postal voting, with newspaper articles in support.
Then she had pinned another tweet for "apologia for violence": "Looting will immediately be greeted by bullets," said Donald Trump about the demonstrations which sometimes degenerated into riots.
More recently, Twitter disabled a campaign video retweeted by the president after a formal notice from the group Linkin Park, which challenged the unauthorized use of its music.
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