Facebook said Wednesday it has removed a video posted by US President Donald Trump over violations of its policies, marking the first time it has removed one of his posts.
“VIDEO INCLUDES FALSE CLAIMS”
The post included a segment from a Fox News interview Trump had taken part in earlier in the day in which he falsely claimed that children are “almost immune” from the novel coronavirus.
“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from coronavirus, which is a violation of our policies around harmful coronavirus misinformation,” a Facebook spokesman said.
A link to the post now alerts users: “Sorry, this content isn’t available right now.”
Trump has long been pushing for schools to reopen to in-person learning come the Fall semester and said during the interview that one reason they should is that children are “virtually immune” to the virus. The Trump campaign said in a widely-reported statement that Trump “was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus.”