After contracting COVID-19, Trump was dinged by platforms for spreading coronavirus misinformation

This edition of Coronavirus Facts is coming to you a day early because… well… *gestures broadly* all of this. First, White House staffers began testing positive for COVID-19, then President Donald Trump did as well, and ended up spending the weekend at Walter Reed Medical Center.

Misinformation spread quickly about Trump’s condition. There was the claim that he was being deliberately killed at Walter Reed (Pants on Fire!); that he boarded Marine One with a portable oxygen device (False); even one about a Simpsons episode that showed Trump in a...