Twitter prevented the eldest son of the President of the United States of America from tweeting on his account for 12 hours, for posting misleading information about the emerging Corna virus.
Twitter said yesterday that it restricted Donald Trump's ability to enter his account for 12 hours because of a tweet he posted that violated her social media policy for misinformation about Covid-19.
President Donald Trump's eldest son released a video on Monday of doctors talking about hydroxychloroquine, which was deleted by Twitter.
Facebook and YouTube, also affiliated with the company, had deleted millions of views for violating their rules of misinformation about Covid-19.
And the US Food and Drug Administration last month canceled its emergency statement of using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, a disease caused by infection with the emerging coronavirus, after several studies questioned its effectiveness. Trump has always recommended the drug and said he used it personally.
"They are censoring my account and censoring others," Donald Trump, Jr. said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.
"This has never happened to someone who says something beneficial to the left. This only hurts the conservatives," he said. He added that he released the video because it appeared to be "completely contrary to the narrative they impose on us."
President Trump also repeated posts on Monday that contained a link to the video recording, and accused Doctor Anthony Fauchi, the chief infectious disease expert in the United States, and Democrats of limiting the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the emerging corona virus.
The Tweet Trump shared with his 84 million followers was deleted as part of Twitter's actions. The White House did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
"It will not mislead the American people under any circumstances," said Fauchi, who runs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and worked with six US presidents on Tuesday.
During the video, scientists promoted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 and also reduced the need to use masks while the pandemic spread. The video viewing statistic showed 17 million times on Facebook before it was deleted.
"It took us several hours to take action against the video and we are going through a review to understand why it took too long," a Facebook spokesman said.