Twitter placed a misinformation label on the same message, but did not remove it.
Facebook took down a post from President Donald Trump on Tuesday that compared the coronavirus to the flu and argued that the United States should learn to live with both illnesses.
“We remove incorrect information about the severity of COVID-19, and have now removed this post,” Facebook spokesperson Liz Bourgeois said in a statement. She noted that Facebook took action because the president equated the coronavirus to the flu. In Tuesday’s post, the president said more than 100,000 people die from the flu every year, a claim contradicted by. The CDC estimates that 61,000 people died in the US from influenza in the 2017-2018 flu season, the highest annual total of the last decade.
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