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A tweet from President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani and another tweet from Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk were removed from Twitter on March 27. Both tweets talked about hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. The treatment was recommended by Trump in a press conference. He said, “I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try.”

The FDA announced on March 29, 2020, that hydroxychloroquine was acceptable to treat coronavirus. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the drug was acceptable to administer to adults and teenagers.

Guiliani’s tweet said, “Hydroxychloroquine has been shown to have a 100% effective rate treating COVID-19. Yet Democrat Gretchen Whitmer is threatening doctors who prescribe it. If Trump is for something- Democrats are against it. They're okay with people dying if it means opposing Trump.” His tweet was in response to Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who challenged Trump in a press conference on March 26, 2020.

Kirk tweeted a similar sentiment. He said, “Fact: Hydroxychloroquine has been shown to have a 100% effective rate treating COVID-19[.] Yet Democrat Gretchen Whitmer is threatening doctors who prescribe it[.] If Trump is for something -- Democrats are against it[.] They’re ok with people dying if it means opposing Trump[.] SICK!”

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the two accounts were temporarily locked for violations of the Twitter rules in reference to COVID-19.

New York Times contributor and University of North Carolina professor Zeynep Tufekci said that the CDC and the World Health Organization misinformed the public. Tufekci wrote in a tweet, “CDC misinformation has helped turn this into a terrible epidemic in NYC, with masks leading the top.”

Yet Twitter has taken no action on either the CDC or WHO.

• Conservative youth group Turning Point USA has deleted a tweet sharing a Nicholas Cage meme mocking 'leftists' over protective masks.
• The tweet was deleted after it was announced that TPUSA co-founder Bill Montgomery, who was 80, had died from complications linked to the coronavirus.
• TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk has questioned mandates over wearing masks, but said that the elderly and vulnerable should self-isolate.
• President Trump was criticised for speaking at a June TPUSA event, where attendees were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing.
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Conservative youth group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has deleted a tweet mocking wearing protective masks after its co-founder, Bill Montgomery, died of complications from the coronavirus.

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On Wednesday two friends of Montgomery confirmed to Politico that he had died, aged 80, of complications from the disease.

The previous evening TPUSA chairman Charlie Kirk announced Montgomery's death and paid tribute to him, describing him as an 'American hero.'

'He touched the lives of thousands of young Americans and I will miss him greatly,' wrote Kirk.

—Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 28, 2020

Kirk, then aged 18, established the group alongside Montgomery in 2012.

The conservative group has taken a critical stance towards public safety measures designed to slow the spread of the disease, such as wearing masks.

The anti-mask tweet was sent on July 28, the day that Montgomery's death was announced. It featured a meme of movie star Nicholas Cage and the message 'me not wearing a mask while a leftist screams at me from their car from across the parking lot at whole foods.'

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By Thursday morning the tweet was no longer present on the TPUSA Twitter feed.

It is not clear why the anti-mask tweet was deleted. Its messaging was in keeping with TPA's skepticism of anti-coronavirus protective measures.

Some critics of the group had sent mocking replies to the post which mentioned Montgomery's death.

Child riding pose packriver oak saddlery. Despite his skepticism, Kirk's position has not been to reject every measure to mitigate the disease.

He has said that those at high risk, such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, should self-isolate.

In a March op-ed for Fox News said that young people not observing coronavirus protective measures were 'endangering an entire society.'

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But he has been highly critical of masks, and on his podcast Sunday he said that mandating mask wearing was wrong.

'Do not force me to wear a mask, it's that simple. I'm not gonna do it, I'm not,' he said.

A TPUSA spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reason for the deletion of the message.

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Another tweet sent last week (July 22) critical of mask-wearing remains on the group's Twitter feed.

—Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) July 22, 2020

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In June President Donald Trump was criticised after appearing at a TPUSA rally in a church in Phoenix, Arizona, not wearing a mask.

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Many of those attending the rally also did not wear a mask or observe social distancing measures advocated by public health experts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.