Elon Musk tweeted a piece of misinformation about children being ‘essentially immune’ to coronavirus, but Twitter isn’t taking it down

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Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday that children are “essentially immune” to coronavirus, which is false.
Twitter announced in a blog post on Thursday that it would crack down on coronavirus misinformation, including things like: “COVID-19 does not infect children because we haven’t seen any cases of children being sick.”
But Twitter says it won’t suppress Musk’s tweet.
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Twitter won’t take action on a tweet sent by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk claiming children are “essentially immune” to the novel coronavirus.

That’s despite the company announcing this week it would tighten up its rules on coronavirus misinformation.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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