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Facebook takes a stand against Trump’s Covid lies

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How have the platforms been dealing with the spread of Covid misinformation when it's coming from the president? Recode’s Peter Kafka discusses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Early Friday morning news broke that President Trump had tested positive for

0:08.2

coronavirus. Details of his condition are still sort of unclear but he's

0:12.4

been tweeting about his health

0:14.2

as well as a lot of misleading information about that virus.

0:18.8

Both Facebook and Twitter created policies a long time ago to prevent the spread of COVID misinformation on their platforms.

0:26.1

But are they working?

0:28.6

Joining me is RICO Senior Correspondent Peter Kofka.

0:30.9

Hey Peter.

0:31.9

Hey Peter. Hey, Eddie.

0:32.6

So before we dive in on Twitter and Facebook,

0:35.4

catch me up on Trump.

0:37.1

Where is he since that diagnosis on Friday?

0:40.1

I think pretty much anyone listening to this at this point knows that Donald Trump went to Walter Reed hospital on Friday night and now he's back in the White House and there have been multiple misleading and contradictory statements about his health.

0:57.0

So I can't really answer it succinctly.

0:59.0

I am looking at a statement from the White House as of Tuesday afternoon, we're recording this.

1:05.7

It says the President's team of physicians has met with him in the residence, they had a restful

1:10.0

first night at home, and today he reports no symptoms and in an ideal world we say oh that's

1:16.1

that memo by the way is from Sean Conley the president's physician and we'd say oh that's

1:20.0

that's good we now have a decent sense of sort of what's going on the president, but what we've learned is we don't really have any idea what's going on with the president.

1:28.4

Right, I was going to ask, can we trust that statement?

1:30.8

No, we can't.

1:32.7

Donald Trump is untrustworthy.

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