Facebook has removed one of President Trump’s posts for breaching its rules on coronavirus misinformation.
In the post, President Trump falsely claimed that Covid-19 is less deadly than the seasonal flu.
“We remove incorrect information about the severity of Covid-19, and have now removed this post,” a Facebook spokesperson told CNBC
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Trump has routinely played down the threat of the virus, telling Americans on Monday they had nothing to fear, after he spent time in hospital with Covid-19.
The president shared a similar post about the flu to his Twitter account on Tuesday. The tweet remains accessible, but Twitter has flagged it for violating its rules about “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to Covid-19”.
Experts say the mortality rate of Covid-19 it is thought to be far higher than that of most strains of the flu.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 22,000 people in the US died from the flu during the last flu season from late 2019 into 2020. By comparison, the coronavirus outbreak in the US has killed more than 210,000 people so far this year alone, data from Johns Hopkins University
Source : BBC
