Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid misinformation policy [View all]
Source: CNN
Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding Covid misinformation policy, yet another sign of how Elon Musk plans to transform the social media company he bought a month ago.
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Between January 2020 and September 2022, Twitter suspended more than 11,000 accounts for breaking Covid misinformation rules and removed almost 100,000 pieces of content that violated those rules, according to statistics published by Twitter. The policy received acclaim from medical professionals: In an advisory to technology platforms, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy cited Twitter’s rules as an example of what companies should do to combat misinformation.
Twitter did not appear to formally announce the rule change. Instead, some Twitter users Monday night spotted a note added to the page on Twitter’s website that outlines its Covid policy.
“Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the note read.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/index.html
The article goes on to describe how Musk "went off script to rail against Covid policies" at a Tesla earnings call in 2020, and how in September 2020 he'd told a journalist he wouldn't get vaccinated: "I’m not at risk for Covid, nor are my kids.” When the journalist pointed out that many more people would die if they didn't get vaccinated, his response was: "Everybody dies."
And now he'll make Twitter a RWNJ's dream, Covid Misinformation Central.
The first thing I noticed checking Twitter this morning was RWers celebrating Musk allowing Covid misinformation. Idiots.
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