Jerusalem (CNN) Facebook has deleted a post by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suspended a chatbot linked to his account for violating the company's privacy policy. Visitors to the Prime Minister's Facebook page, who clicked on a link about the coronavirus, received an automatic message, purporting to come from Netanyahu. the message read. Taking action and removing the items, Facebook said, via a spokesperson, that "under our privacy policy we do not allow content that shares or asks for people's medical information." The spokesperson added that Facebook had "removed the offending post and temporarily suspended the Messenger bot, which shared this content, for breaking these rules."

Source: CNN January 25, 2021 19:14 UTC