TWITTER said Wednesday it had restricted U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign from tweeting its false claims about the coronavirus. This came hours after Facebook removed a video post from the page of Trump over “harmful COVID misinformation.”

Both have removed the post containing a video clip of an interview the president gave to Fox News on Wednesday morning. Trump claimed in the video that children are almost immune to the virus.

“Children handle it very well,” he told reporters. “If you look at the numbers, in terms of mortality, fatalities ... for children under a certain age ... their immune systems are very, very strong and very powerful. They seem to be able to handle it very well and that’s according to every statistical claim.”

Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone and Twitter spokesperson both said the video is a violation of their policies around COVID misinformation. Twitter added that “the account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can tweet again.”

The tweet by the Trump campaign had been shared from the president’s main account and the video is no longer available on both accounts, suggesting the campaign had complied with the order and removed the video.

In response to the takedown, Courtney Parella, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign criticized Silicon Valley for being biased against Trump, saying “social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.”

The spokesperson of Facebook added it was the first time the company had removed a Trump post over coronavirus misinformation. However, it’s not the first time that the company removed content from the president’s page. In June, Facebook deleted ads run by the Trump campaign for containing a Nazi symbol.

(SD-Agencies)