President Trump himself also tweeted several links to the offending video, which claims hydroxychloroquine can cure COVID-19. Twitter has since deleted the tweets he re-tweeted.
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Twitter is temporarily blocking Donald Trump Jr.’s account from tweeting after he posted a video claiming the drug hydroxychloroquine can cure COVID-19 and that masks are ineffective.
Twitter took action because the video violates its policy against posting COVID-19 misinformation. The company is now demanding Trump Jr. delete his original tweet.
“We require removal of content that may pose a risk to people’s health, including content that directly goes against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local health information,” the company wrote in its notice to Trump Jr.
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In the meantime, Twitter is also temporarily limiting certain functions on his account for the next 12 hours. Trump Jr. can still browse the site and send direct messages, but he can no longer tweet, retweet, like, or follow new accounts.
