Twitter says it has limited access to Donald Trump Jr's account for 12 hours because a tweet he posted violated the social media site's misinformation policy on Covid-19.
The eldest son of the US president posted a video on Monday of doctors talking about the drug hydroxychloroquine.
The video was taken down by the social media company for breaking its rules on Covid-19 misinformation.
He also later retweeted a post accusing US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci and the Democratis Party of suppressing the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat the novel coronavirus and included a link to the video, in which the doctors discount the need for face masks amid the pandemic.
The video was also taken down by Facebook and YouTube after being widely shared.
"It is beyond the pale for Twitter to silence someone for sharing the views of medical professionals who happen to dissent with their anti-hydroxychloroquine narrative," said Andy Surabian, a spokesman for the president's son, after sharing a screenshot that showed Twitter had temporarily limited some of @DonaldJTrumpJr's account features.
"We did not suspend the account. The screenshot shared directly says that Twitter required the Tweet to be deleted because it violated our rules, and that we would limit some account functionality for 12 hours," a Twitter spokesman told Reuters.
