Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign from tweeting after it shared a video of the president spreading COVID-19 misinformation (TWTR)

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• Twitter briefly banned the Trump campaign's account from tweeting Wednesday after it violated the company's policies against COVID-19 misinformation, a spokesperson told Business Insider.
• The campaign tweeted a video of Trump falsely claiming to Fox News that children are "almost immune" from the disease.
• Trump also tweeted a link to the video, which has since been blocked, but the company did not take any action against the president's account.
• Facebook took down a similar post by Trump earlier in the day for violating its own COVID-19 misinformation policies, a first for the company.
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Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign's account from tweeting on Wednesday for posting a video of the president spreading COVID-19 misinformation, a spokesperson told Business Insider.

The campaign tweeted a video, which has since been removed, of Trump falsely claiming to Fox News that children are "almost immune" from the disease.

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