NOTE: This story originally reported that Twitter appeared to suggest they had censored President Trump's tweets, based on the statements made by their representative. They have since confirmed this is not the case. We are happy to update the story.
Twitter says it has taken no enforcement action against Donald Trump's account over coronavirus misinformation.
A spokesperson for the social network told the Mirror: "We can confirm that Twitter has not taken enforcement action on President Trump related to COVID misinformation."
The statement follows confusion over comments made by Katie Minshall, the firm's UK head of Government - who did not deny reducing the visibility of the President's messages and shared tweets.
Asked whether the firm often took action against the President, Ms Minshall said: "We have taken action on tweets that break our rules that absolutely include world leaders, and any tweet that breaks the rules we will take appropriate action."
Ms Minshall had previously confirmed to the committe that Twitter had removed videos of Brazillian President Jair Bolsonaro because they spread misinformation about the virus.
Julian Knight, chair of the Commons Digital committe asked: "You say world leaders, I know there's one in Brazil.
Have you ever reduced one of Donald Trump's tweets at all? Have you taken any action against the President of the United States or in fact any other world leader apart from the President of Brazil."
Ms Minshall replied: "We have taken action from other world leaders around the globe, particularly in the past few weeks when it comes to Covid-19 misinformation."
She added: "But I think what's important for the committee to be aware of is that we have a policy where there may come a time when it's in the public interest to be aware that a world leader has shared a tweet, but if it does break our rules we will hide it with an interstitial that notes that it's harmful and does break the rules."
Ms Minshall earlier confirmed the firm had blocked the hashtag "#injectdisinfectant" from trending.
It followed evidence at the committee that false information - much of it spread by state-backed agencies in China and Russia - was seen by a billion social media accounts worldwide.
Research by the Oxford Internet Institute found the average piece of junk health news online has about the same distribution as an article from the BBC.
The Institute’s director, Professor Philip Howard, told a committee of MPs most Covid-19 misinformation was created by state-run agencies in China and Russia, and almost all of it was targeted at users in the UK and US.
He told the Commons Digital Committee: “In the past couple of weeks we've learned misinformation reaches a billion social media user accounts around the world and much of this content is generated by state-run agencies.
“And much of it, almost all of it is in English. So it's targeted at people in the UK, people in the US, English language users.”
He said it was difficult to assess how successful the propaganda campaigns had been.
But he said: “In a recent study we did with colleagues at the Reuters institute here at oxford university, we found that roughly 25% of the population believes Covid was created in a lab and released either accidentally or purposefully onto the population.”
