Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were "almost immune" to coronavirus.

Facebook deleted the post a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News saying it contained harmful Covid misinformation.

Twitter followed by saying it had frozen a Trump campaign account until a tweet of the same clip was removed.

A Facebook spokesperson on Wednesday evening said the video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation.

It was the first time the social giant had taken action to remove content posted by the president based on its coronavirus-misinformation policy, but not the first time it has penalised Mr Trump over content on his page.

On Wednesday, Twitter also said it had frozen the @TeamTrump account because it posted the same interview excerpt, which President Trump's account shared.

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