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Twitter, Facebook block Trump video, citing Covid-19 misinformation

The Trump re-election campaign's Twitter account, @TeamTrump, was briefly banned from sending new tweets after it posted a clip of an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News

Donald Trump. (Bloomberg photo)
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Kurt Wagner and Sarah Frier | Bloomberg
Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to US President Donald Trump for violating their policies on coronavirus misinformation.

The Trump re-election campaign’s Twitter account, @TeamTrump, was briefly banned from sending new tweets after it posted a clip of an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News in which he said children were “virtually immune” from the Covid-19 coronavirus. 

“[Children] don’t have a problem, they just don’t have a problem,” Trump said in the video as part of an argument for why schools should reopen. “It doesn’t have an impact on them. I’ve watched some