Trump campaign fires back after FB takes down “false claim”

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Facebook has taken down a post fromย President Trumpโ€™s official page, saying it contained โ€œfalse claimsโ€ related to the novel coronavirus.โ€ The President said children were “almost immune,” not immune from the virus during a Fox & Friends interview yesterday morning.

His campaign fired back.

โ€œThe President was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus,โ€ Trump campaign deputy national press secretary Courtney Parella said in a statement. โ€œAnother day, another display of Silicon Valleyโ€™s flagrant bias against this President, where the rules are only enforced in one direction. Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.โ€

Facebook has previously removed Trump campaign advertisements, but Wednesday is the first time the company has removed a post from the president’s page concerning COVID-19.

The White House deferred comments about Facebookโ€™s actions to the Trump campaign.

In a statement, first reported by NBC News, a spokesperson for the social media platform said the video was removed because it โ€œincludes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation.โ€

That isn’t what he said. The President said “almost immune” from this disease.

Go to this link to view the clip

They actually disabled his account because they didn’t like this tweet. He was expressing an opinion.

When Trump was asked about it last night, he said, โ€œWhen I say that Iโ€™m talking about from getting very sick. If you look at children they are able to throw it off very easily.โ€

Obviously, โ€˜immuneโ€™ wasnโ€™t exactly what he meant, and he did clarify what he meant. Thatโ€™s what is supposed to happen. Not this totalitarian censorship by Big Tech. They are the new thought police.


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