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Why has Donald Trump Jr’s Twitter been suspended?

DONALD Trump Jr has been suspended from Twitter for spreading misleading coronavirus information.

President Trump's 42-year-old son retweeted a viral video of a speech by controversial doctor Stella Immanuel, who claims masks are unnecessary.

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account was suspended for promoting a video endorsing controversial theories.

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Earlier this month, the president's son  of an apparent warning a user received from , which is owned by .

The message shared by Trump Jr indicates that four of the posts have been deleted between June 1 and July 5 because they were believed to have "harmful false information."

His post on the app also includes two screenshots of CNN article headlines: one from April 11 that says  is "wrong in so many ways about hydroxychloroquine studies," and a second from July 2 that states "Study finds hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better."

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