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Distilleries Race to Make Hand Sanitizer Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Many are reporting extraordinary demand for the product, which has been hard, if not impossible, to find on store shelves.

Trump throws tantrum over question about coronavirus fears: ‘You’re a terrible reporter’

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Donald Trump has thrown an extraordinary temper tantrum on live television, lambasting a reporter who challenged him for raising hopes about a coronavirus treatment.

Related: States ask Trump to deploy military to help fight coronavirus pandemic

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Twitter to remove harmful fake news about coronavirus

Why are they always so far behind!

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Site changes rules to ban content aimed at making people act against official advice

Twitter will remove tweets that run the risk of causing harm by spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19, the company has said, after weeks of criticism that its policies on misinformation were too lax.

Now, the social network says, it will be applying a new broader definition of harm to address content that “goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information”.

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