Twitter Stops Enforcing Covid Misinformation Policy
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However, it is still unclear why Twitter took this step, as Covid is not over yet and countries like China are still reeling from its effects.
According to reports, the move could lead to an increase in vaccine conspiracy theories on the platform such as “Vaccines now kill more people than Covid.”
In December 2020, Twitter announced that it would remove tweets making false or misleading claims about CoVID-19 vaccination and label such claims false, prioritizing the removal of the most harmful misinformation. .