Twitter Rolls Back COVID Misinformation Policy
Date
11/29/2022 7:12:20 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) twitter Inc has rolled back a policy that was aimed at tackling
misinformation related to COVID-19 on the social media platform,
lending itself to the risk of a potential surge in false claims
even as cases rise in China and some parts of the world, trend reports citing reuters .
The move also comes amid concerns of Twitter's ability to fight
misinformation after it let go about half of its staff, including
those involved in content moderation, under new boss Elon Musk.
'Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the
COVID-19 misleading information policy,' according to an update on
its blog page. The update was first reported by CNN on Tuesday.
The specific measures that Twitter will drop were not
immediately clear, and the company did not immediately respond to a
request to share more information.
At the onset of COVID in 2020, Twitter instated a number of
measures including labels and warning messages on tweets with
disputed information about the health crisis and a framework to
have users remove tweets that advanced harmfully false claims
related to vaccines.
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