Donald Trump Jr received an expiration date for Twitter (AP/Evan Vucci file)
Twitter temporarily prevented U.S. President Donald Trump’s son from tweeting about his after sharing a video plagued by unfounded accusations about the coronavirus.
Many Republicans reacted with outrage, filling social media with “censorship” cries after they suspended Donald Trump Jr’s account for sharing the video, which was viewed millions of times online within hours, with the president himself achieving, before Facebook, Twitter and YouTube banned. That.
These social media platforms have zero-tolerance policies on posts that sell destructive falsehoods about coronavirus.
Conservative media, experts and personalities promoted the video on Facebook and Twitter. It has pro-Trump doctors who tell Americans they don’t want to wear a mask to save it from the coronavirus, while also throwing hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that the president has touted in the past, as a way to treat the coronavirus.
The video directly contradicts the recommendation of Trump’s own medical experts, who have suggested others slow the spread of the virus through the mask and warned that they oppose hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus.
U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo AP / Andrew Harnik)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently withdrew an order to use hydroxychloroquine as an emergency remedy for Covid-19.
Trump’s son used Twitter to share the misleading video with his five million followers, and called it “a look !!!.”
Because he was disseminating incorrect information about the coronavirus remedy, Twitter asked Trump Jr. to delete the video and put his account in a 12-hour period, a Twitter spokesman confirmed.
Trump Jr’s profile is still visible, but he can’t tweet, retwe or like other messages at the time.
Meanwhile, the president retwed a post of the video, which has since been deleted. His story remains alive.
Versions of the video still circulate on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, accumulating millions of views.
Facebook and Twitter said they had removed several versions and were running to delete others. YouTube also said it had been scrapped from the video on its site.