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Watch this BMW change colors. See how Walmart can stock your kitchen when you're not home. Here's what it was like in the courtroom for the Elizabeth Holmes verdict. Twitter TWTR announced in March that it would remove Covid tweets that could cause a "direct risk to people's health or well-being.

Trump, possibly Twitter's most prolific user, will also be subject to the rules, according to Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of site integrity. Exclusive: She's been falsely accused of starting the pandemic. Her life has been turned upside down. At a White House briefing in April, Trump dangerously suggested ingesting disinfectants could help cure coronavirus.

Trump has also promoted unproven drug therapies for the virus. Not further divides. There were roughly 3, confirmed cases of the illness in the U. Many others have condemned the practice of identifying the illness by location or ethnicity, including the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, which called on its fellow legislators to "help us prevent hysteria, ignorant attacks, and racist assaults that have been fueled by misinformation pertaining to the novel coronavirus COVID " by sharing only confirmed and verifiable information.

The Asian American Journalists Association released guidelines for responsible reporting in February to curb "fueling xenophobia and racism that have already emerged since the outbreak. Grace Meng, D-N. She said it's likely that officials are using China or Asian Americans as scapegoats "versus actually dealing with the problem at hand.

Download the NBC News app for full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. Along with the virus' spread, there has been an increase in racist incidents and discrimination targeting Asian Americans. Two Hmong guests endured harassment and were later barred from staying at first a Super 8 and then a Days Inn in Indiana. In California, an Asian teen was bullied, assaulted and sent to the emergency room over fears surrounding the pandemic.

De Blasio held a media roundtable Wednesday to condemn coronavirus-related discrimination against Asian communities in New York. The information removed by Twitter appears to stem from provisional death counts for the coronavirus that was updated August 26 and listed underlying health conditions among those killed by the virus. In the United States, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is nearing 6 million, and more than , people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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