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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia US President Donald Trump has yet to recover from the coronavirus, but his finger is again causing a stir on social media Twitter and Facebook for making controversial statements.
On Tuesday (6/10/2020), Facebook and Twitter took firm action against Trump’s mis-post claiming that seasonal flu (influenza) is deadlier than coronavirus.
Facebook immediately removed the post, while Twitter added a coronavirus misinformation warning label before users could click on the tweet. Twitter also banned the tweet from being shared.
“As a standard notification of public interest, interaction with tweets will be severely restricted,” said a Twitter spokesperson, compiled from CNBC International, Wednesday (7/10/2020).
In posts shared on Facebook and Twitter, Trump wrote: “Flu season is coming! Every year many people, sometimes more than 100,000 and despite vaccines, die from flu. Are we going to shut down our country? No, We have learned to live.Therefore, just as we learned to live with Covid, in a large part of the population [flu musiman] much more deadly !!! “
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of Tuesday morning, Covid-19 has infected more than 7.45 million US citizens, of which 210,195 people died. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 22,000 people will die from seasonal flu in 2019-2020. The deadliest flu season since 2010 occurred in 2017-2018, with an estimated 61,000 deaths.
“We removed the false information about the severity of Covid-19 and have now removed that post,” said a Facebook spokesperson.
For the actions of the two social media giants, Trump later joked on Facebook and Twitter by writing on his personal account “REVOKE SECTION 230!” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act allows online platforms to moderate and remove harmful content without being penalized.
In May, Trump signed an executive order directed against the law, citing accusations of unfair “censorship” by social media platforms. The orders came shortly after Twitter labeled Trump’s tweets as perverts for the first time.
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