President Trump's Facebook post 'The new corona has a lower case fatality rate than influenza' is removed as false


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Matt Johnson

President Trump, who has returned to work from the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), posted on his Facebook page that 'the new coronavirus has fewer deaths and lower case fatality rate than influenza'. Certified posts as 'fake news'. I forcibly deleted the post itself.

Facebook removes Trump post falsely saying COVID-19 is less deadly than the flu --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504206/facebook-removed-trump-post-covid-19-coronavirus-flu-lethal-misinformation

Facebook removes Trump post falsely saying flu is more lethal than Covid --CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/facebook-trump-covid-flu-false/index.html

President Trump announced on October 2, 2020 that he had been infected with the new coronavirus.

President Trump infected with new coronavirus-GIGAZINE



President Trump was once admitted to a hospital in Washington, DC after being infected with the new coronavirus, but was discharged in about three days. President Trump is working in a room isolated from others in the White House while continuing treatment.

President Trump, who returned to work, posted an article on Facebook stating that 'the new coronavirus is less lethal than influenza.' Facebook has forcibly deleted President Trump's post because the content is an unconfirmed claim. Facebook has confirmed in an interview with news media CNN that it has deleted the post because President Trump's post violated the rules regarding fake news of the new coronavirus.

President Trump also posted on Twitter with the same content that was deleted on Facebook. The following is an actual tweet by President Trump: 'The flu season is approaching. Despite the vaccine, many people, sometimes more than 100,000, die of the flu every year. Will it shut down? No, we've learned to live with the virus, just as we've learned to live with the new corona virus, which is far less lethal to people. '



Although the post on Twitter has not been deleted, a note is displayed in the red frame below. You can not check the display by embedding the tweet, but when you check the tweet with the application or browser, it says 'This tweet violates Twitter's rule regarding the spread of misleading information related to the new coronavirus. However, we can see that Twitter has determined that it may be in the public interest to keep this tweet available. '



In addition, President Trump claimed that 'sometimes more than 100,000 people' died from influenza, but according to CNN reporter Donald Sullivan, the annual death toll from influenza in the United States is 24,000. It is said that there are ~ 62,000 people. Mr. Sullivan also points out that President Trump's claim is wrong, citing that the new coronavirus has killed more than 210,000 Americans between March 2020 and October 2020.

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