It’s a lot harder for Twitter to give right-wing users like Donald Trump Jr. a pass when the coronavirus has become politicized.
Donald Trump Jr., seen at an event in Phoenix on June 23, tweeted out coronavirus misinformation this week., a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.
On Monday and Tuesday, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter tried to put out a misinformation wildfire. A viral video, which touted the discredited coronavirus remedy hydroxychloroquine and claimed that people don’t need to wear masks, caught the attention of millions of users, leading the platforms to remove posts of the video and ban accounts. One of those users was Donald Trump Jr.
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