(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR. N) said Tuesday that he had limited Donald Trump Jr.’s ability to tweet from his account for 12 hours, after forcing him to delete a message that violated the social media site’s policy on the disinformation coronavirus. .
U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son posted a tweet removed Monday with a viral video of doctors about hydroxychloroquine.
The video posted through others on Facebook Inc (FB. Or) and YouTube owned by Alphabet Inc (GOOGL. Or) and withdrawn for violating the regulations of those sites on incorrect information from COVID-19 after accumulating tens of millions of visits.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 last month after several studies questioned its effectiveness. The president promoted the drug and said he had used it himself.
“They censor my account. They censor others,” Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News Channel.
“This never occurs to anyone who says something that benefits the left. It only hurts the Conservatives,” he said, adding that he posted the video because it seemed “very contrary to the narrative they were forcing us.”
President Trump retwed a message to his 84 million fans Monday with a link to the misleading video, which was also removed as a component of Twitter’s compliance measures. The White House did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
The president retwed a message accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, of suppressing the use of hydroxychloroquine.
Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that he “deceived the American public.”
In the misleading video, doctors presented hydroxychloroquine as a for COVID-19 and ruled out the need for a mask against the pandemic. The right-wing news site Breitbart News, which posted the video, also showed a screenshot of its 17 million video perspectives on Facebook before it was deleted.
“It took us several hours to object to the video and we’re reviewing why it took longer than expected,” said a Facebook spokesman.
Elizabeth Culliford reports; new reports by Neha Malara and Alexandra Alper; Edited by Bernadette Baum, Howard Goller and Himani Sarkar
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