The social network giant, Facebook, has removed a post in which United States President Donald Trump had claimed that COVID-19 was less deadly than the flu.
The US had learned to live with the flu season, just like we are learning to live with COVID, in most populations far less lethal!!! He wrote.
The BBC reported on Tuesday that Twitter hid the same message behind a warning about “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information.”
The users have to click past the alert to read the tweet posted by Donald Trump.
After being treated in the hospital for three days and having tested positive for the virus, Trump is now at the white house.
Andy Stone, the Policy communications manager at Facebook told: “We remove incorrect information about the severity of Covid-19, and have now removed this post,”
As per the John Hopkins University, the accurate mortality rate for the COVID-19 is not known, but it is thought to be extensively higher and possibly be 10 times or more than most flu strains.
“REPEAL SECTION 230!!!” The President Donald Trump reacted by posting.
This is a reference to a law that states social networks are not accountable for the content posted by the people who use them.
But it enables the firms to take part in “good-Samaritan blocking”, including the deletion of content they judge to be harassment, offensive or violent.
If the law ever got abolished, social media firms would suffer from being prosecuted over the changes and edits of user content they made.
This is the second time that Facebook has removed a post from the trump. Twitter has intervened more frequently with deletions and warnings.
Both the social networking sites have sworn to oppose potentially dangerous misinformation surrounding the virus.
