Twitter Penalizes Donald Trump Jr. For Sharing Video Of Doctor Saying hydroxychloroquine Cures Covid

Donald Trump Jr, son of US president, Donald Trump, has been suspended from Twitter for posting “misleading and potentially harmful information” about coronavirus from Dr. Stella Immanuel, a Nigerian doctor based in the US.

The president’s son shared a video of Dr Stella Immanuel in which she called hydroxychloroquine a “cure” for coronavirus, even though the anti-malaria drug has not been found to be an effective Covid-19 treatment.

President Trump retweeted his son’s post, but that has since been removed from his Twitter timeline.

Twitter said in a tweet: “This account has not been permanently suspended. Per the screenshot, the tweet requires deletion because it violates our rules (sharing misinformation on Covid-19), and the account will have limited functionality for 12 hours.”