Twitter said on Tuesday it had withdrawn a video retweeted by President Donald Trump in which doctors made allegedly false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, after Facebook took similar action.
“Tweets with the video are in violation of our Covid-19 misinformation policy,” a Twitter spokesperson said, declining to give details on how many people had watched the video.
The video, which shows a group of doctors claiming masks and lockdowns were not required to halt the disease, had been watched by 14-million people on Facebook before it was removed, according to The Washington Post. Shortly after it was removed from Facebook, Trump tweeted several clips of the video to his 84-million followers.
Trump's son Donald Trump Jr was temporarily halted from tweeting on Tuesday after he posted a clip of the video in which a doctor said hydroxychloroquine cured coronavirus.
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