Twitter Suspends Donald Trump Jr. for Tweeting COVID-19 Misinformation

[George II]

Source: Vice

Twitter has temporarily suspended the account belonging to Donald Trump Jr, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump after he posted content that violated the company’s policies on misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic.

The account will be suspended for 12 hours, during which time Don Jr. will be barred from posting new messages, liking or retweeting other posts. He will still be allowed to use Twitter’s Direct Message service to contact his followers. A Twitter spokesperson said this was not a suspension, that it was a "temporary lockout until the Tweet is deleted—not a suspension."

The tweet that triggered the suspension linked to a video that contains multiple falsehoods and dubious claims about COVID-19 and its treatments. The post was deleted and replaced with a message simply saying “this tweet is no longer available.”

Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay73n/twitter-suspends-donald-trump-jr-for-tweeting-covid-19-misinformation

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[mdbl]

1. The moron that posted that tweet needs to understand

There's a difference between free speech and fraudulent speech. Doofus!

[IronLionZion]

2. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree in that family

suspend his dumbass dad next

[George II]

3. I prefer the way Big Bang Theory says it - "the douche doesn't fall far from the bag!"

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Trump retweeted the accusation that Fauci is letting people die to make Trump look bad

which is evidence of Trump's mental unfitness to be president - rampant paranoia causing problems in your work.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213817640

Plus, of course, it's libel, that in a normal world would not just get Trump banned from the platform, it would get him sued. But we know Twitter and Facebook have said the rules don't apply to Trump, so he can abuse the platform as he and his carers see fit.

[Politicub]

4. Isn't there another Twitter-like forum that was created for the right?

I can't remember the name of it, but there seemed to be a bunch of conservatives and magats flocking to it when it launched a few weeks ago.

He has a place to post his idiocy to a self-selected fanbase; he should slither on over to the other forum and stop his whining.

[soothsayer]

5. Parler

[IronLionZion]

6. That debunked myth is dangerous info

I've seen several deplorables post online that there already is an effective treatment for COVID (hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, and zinc) but doctors are too stupid to use it and liberals are too evil to let this info go public because they benefit from masks and shutdowns somehow.

It's absolutely bonkers.

[underpants]

12. It's all over the place.

Trump was retweeting it a lot last night. I’m seeing from the dotards on Facebook- man did I go to high school and serve in the Army with some dumbasses.

[Initech]

7. Hydroxychloroquine is bullshit and any sane doctor will tell you that.

And by "sane", I mean a doctor who believes in science and not alien DNA and demon sperm.

[uppityperson]

9. Jr's Twitter account is Active again

[underpants]

10. 12 hours without the wit and insight of Jr. ?!?!?

What ever will we do????

[George II]

11. It's going to be tough, but we'll get through it.

[underpants]

13. Together George

Together

[ananda]

14. All the Trumps should be suspended, especially MF45.

Period.

They are all a serious danger to this country and the world.

[Steelrolled]

15. I doubt if it happens but I wish Pres Biden

would drop use of Twitter once he is elected. It is a cesspool. The whitehouse website can have some alternative system for Joe to put out tweet-like messages.

[George II]

16. He has an account, but I think all the tweets are prepared by staffers and they address issues only.

[LuckyLib]

19. Agree. He can say we're going to have civil discourse

and actual information coming from the office of the President. And let’s have a communications office and press secretary with brains and experience.

[CaptainTruth]

17. It's NOT a suspension, it's a temporary limitation of account features.

I'm amazed to see how many news sources are reporting this incorrectly.

[George II]

18. The only thing he can do is send and receive DMs. He can't tweet or retweet.