{"id":787,"date":"2020-08-06T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:11:02","slug":"trump-campaign-official-account-blocked-by-twitter-over-covid-19-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/trump-campaign-official-account-blocked-by-twitter-over-covid-19-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Campaign Official Account Blocked by Twitter Over Covid-19 Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s official campaign account was briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-08-06\/twitter-blocks-trump-campaign-account-over-covid-misinformation?srnd=technology-vp\">suspended<\/a> by Twitter on Wednesday. According to a statement from Twitter Inc., @teamtrump was violating the social-media&#8217;s giant policy on coronavirus misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s personal Twitter handle @realDonaldTrump also retweeted a tweet from @teamtrump depicting a video featuring the POTUS&#8217; interview with Fox News on Wednesday. During the interview, President Trump claimed that children are &#8220;virtually immune&#8221; from Covid-19:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have a problem, they just don\u2019t have a problem,\u201d Trump added, as part of an argument for why schools should reopen. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have an impact on them. I\u2019ve watched some doctors say they\u2019re totally immune.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Twitter&#8217;s moderation team, the @teamtrump account was briefly blocked from posting until the respective clip featuring the president of the United States was removed from Twitter. Donald Trump&#8217;s personal Twitter account was unaffected by this snafu.<\/p>\n<p>The official campaign account resumed posting earlier on Wednesday, though the aforementioned video-clip, the Fox News interview respectively, have been taken down. According to Nick Pacilio, a spokesman for Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe original Tweet from @TeamTrump is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation, and we\u2019ve required removal\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This happened just a few hours after Facebook&#8217;s moderation team also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/08\/05\/trump-post-removed-facebook\/\">censored<\/a> the clip of Donald Trump&#8217;s interview for Fox and Friends, where the POTUS claimed the children to be virtually immune from getting Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/no%20longer.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to observe that both Twitter and Facebook claim to be &#8220;free speech&#8221; <em>platforms<\/em>, as opposed to publishers, yet they seem to censor non-politically correct content when it goes against the official narrative, even if it comes from the highest echelons of power. The point being, since when does a company have lording ability over what the President of the USA says?<\/p>\n<p>As in, is the POTUS now expected to get approval from Facebook and Twitter before he issues any statement or gives an interview?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s official campaign account was briefly suspended by Twitter on Wednesday. According to a statement from Twitter Inc., @teamtrump was violating the social-media&#8217;s giant policy on coronavirus misinformation. President Trump&#8217;s personal Twitter handle @realDonaldTrump also retweeted a tweet from @teamtrump depicting a video featuring the POTUS&#8217; interview with Fox News on Wednesday. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Twitter Suspends President Trump&#039;s Campaign Account for COVID-19 Misinformation","_seopress_titles_desc":"Twitter temporarily suspended President Donald Trump&#039;s campaign account for violating its policy on coronavirus misinformation. 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