President Donald Trump takes off his face mask as he arrives at the White House upon his return from Walter Reed medical center on October 5. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

Twitter put up a warning label for misleading information on an identical Trump post.

Facebook deleted one of Trump’s posts today for violating the company’s policies against harmful health misinformation. This was only the second time Facebook has taken down a post from the president for violating its misinformation policies.

On Tuesday morning, President Trump — fresh out of the hospital after contracting Covid-19 — posted to his Facebook account, falsely stating that the flu can be more deadly than Covid-19. After several hours, Facebook took down the post for violating its health misinformation policies against Covid-19, as CNN first reported. Twitter left an identical post by Trump up on its