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06 October 2020Facebook has removed the post by Donald Trump in which the president says that Covid is less lethal than the flu.



Social media giant's spokesman Andy Stone explained that the post was removed because it violated the rules imposed to limit disinformation about Covid.

Instead, Twitter did not intervene to remove the message.



"The flu season is coming - wrote the president also on Twitter - Many people every year, sometimes over a hundred thousand, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu. Are we closing our country? No, we have learned to live with it. , as we are learning to do with Covid, which in most of the population is much less lethal. "

In this case the post was obscured.





Flu season is coming up!

Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu.

Are we going to close down our Country?

No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal !!!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020



CNN immediately published a fact check to deny Trump's claims, pointing out that the victims of Covid in the United States, over 210 thousand people, are more than the number of victims influence of the past five years.

In fact, between 2015 and 2020, according to data from the CDC, about 178 thousand people from the flu died.