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Jul 28, 2020, 7 tweets

A watershed, of sorts.

July 2020: President Trump retweeted a video with medical misinformation about the coronavirus. @Twitter took it down.
nytimes.com/2020/07/27/wor…
@Facebook also removed versions of the video — but much more slowly, after millions of views.
They’re still too slow.

Twitter required @DonaldJTrumpJr to delete a tweet with a viral video containing medical misinformation about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for #COVID29, a violation of its @Policy: nytimes.com/live/2020/07/2… Unclear if they limited access until he deleted.

More clarity from @inafried: @Twitter appears to have given the president’s son a 12 hours time out, in a kind of “read only” mode, where a user can only browse & send DMs, but not post, RT, follow, or Like. axios.com/donald-trump-j… Not quite a Purgatory: deletion isn’t expiation.

@inafried @Twitter "If it seems like an otherwise healthy account is in the middle of an abusive episode, we might temporarily make their account read-only"-@TwitterSafety help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…

@inafried @Twitter @TwitterSafety In 2020, life reads like @cstross' Laundry Files.

Not @TheOnion:
"Immanuel claims real-life ailments such as fibroid tumors & cysts stem from the demonic sperm after demon dream sex"
news.yahoo.com/trump-favorite…
And the President & his son amplified a video online featuring her.

I am still having a hard time believing this is real life and not a @cstross novel.

2020 keeps devolving, & we haven’t even gotten to the big reveals about aliens & a theocratic doomsday cult at the end of the season.

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