Facebook And Twitter Penalize Trump For Spreading False COVID Claims | Talking Points Memo

Facebook and Twitter took decisive action against President Donald Trump on Wednesday for spreading coronavirus misinformation after his official and campaign accounts broke their rules.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1324370

Has the twitter-storm started yet this morning?

(I never go looking for this stuff – I wait on others who have stronger stomachs to report back…)

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Wow. Trump must have stepped over some line.

And here I thought he’d already obliterated it.

30,000 times over…

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if anybody cares

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They are almost immune, and just barely die. /s
A curse on him and his toadies. Lookin’ at you Mitch.

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President tells Fox News hosts that he is “almost immune” to rational thought.

“But I’m still tested daily. A rational thought could get past my staff and infect me. I have supplies of – it’s a natural medicine. The Jews - smart guys, very smart guys - developed it centuries ago. It mixes with milk and makes it taste like chocolate. Bosco Milk Amplifier - great stuff.”

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At least it’s an attempt to stop misinformation, but there are still plenty of enablers to give Trump a forum for his blathering.

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Oh hell yeah, plenty of enablers and believers. There was a post on HuffPost about Fauci hiring security for his family. The comments section was rife with “He created the virus.” “He’s invested in the lab that created the virus.” “The economy is ruined because of him.”

Truly deranged…and this was HP.

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Comforting the afflicted. What a nice man.

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It was a costume party? She is my wife’s assistant? WTF?

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What Trump is engaged in is not American politics. It is a malignant offshoot.

In this particular case, the malignancy entails Genocide: killing Americans with false information about a deadly virus. Only trickery has kept this man out of jail. Moscow McConnell’s trickery.

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“It’s quiet. Too quiet.”

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Yeah, assumed that since I hadn’t seen any headlines thus far.

Either they’ve taken away his phone or they made another late-night run out to Walter Reed with an apoplectic Don the Con.

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Facebook also should have at least labeled the Fox and friends ingrates for leading the misleader.

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The speed at which they removed the tweet shows you how desperately dependent they are on their social media propaganda.

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Close his accounts! Ban him!

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There’s a lot going on here.

But hey, how about that stock market?

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I’m surprised they have that 13% onscreen.

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Perhaps Fox is turning on Trump?

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:eyes:


Daniel Dale
@ddale8

Geraldo asks Trump if Biden should take the same cognitive test Trump took, with the, “People, world, whatever.” Trump says yes, and that people always show the easy first questions but “a lot of people wouldn’t get those last questions right.”

6:50 AM · Aug 6, 2020

And earlier,

“He’s against the Bible,” Trump says of Biden, a Catholic who clearly knows more of the Bible than Trump does.
“That may be a little harsh,” Geraldo responds.
Trump says well at least the people around Biden are against the Bible.

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