Twitter has announced that it has changed its policies against COVID-19 disinformation in 2020. Accordingly, the platform will no longer take action against content and accounts that spread false information about the pandemic.
starting in 2020 COVID-19 The pandemic had caused us to go through a terrible time by succeeding in affecting the whole world. This process, the effects of which are still not completely over, caused some negative situations to arise in the internet environment as well as in real life. So much so that social media platforms used by billions of people are about diseases and vaccines. with false information it was overflowing.
One of the critics on this issue was Twitter. The technology giant has taken some steps to prevent the spread of misinformation in the pandemic, just like other platforms, and new policies had introduced. Introduced in 2020, these policies ensured that content containing disinformation about COVID was flagged or removed. However, an update made now showed that the platform, which has recently passed under the management of Elon Musk, has made changes in this regard.
Twitter will no longer remove posts containing false information about COVID-19
Instead of making a new announcement, Twitter announced that it changed its COVID-19 policies by publishing an update on a page about the subject. In the statement of the platform, stating that the change came into effect as of November 23, the following statements were included:Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID-19 misleading information policy”
This change made by the platform is now about COVID-19. posting false information and No action will be taken against accounts that share them. reveals. This move by Twitter came after Elon Musk announced that it would start bringing back banned accounts on the platform. The data showed that the famous entrepreneur was able to restore 62,000 accounts that did not break the law and were not horribly spammed. Whether Musk will bring back 11,230 accounts suspended for spreading COVID disinformation not yet known.
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Twitter suspended 11,230 accounts while removing more than 100,000 content since 2020 under COVID policy
Twitter took action on content containing misleading information about COVID and vaccines, with its disinformation policies that it put into effect in 2020. The company also permanently suspended accounts that repeatedly broke the rules during this process. The data shared by the platform is also the total since January 2020. 11,230 accounts suspended, around 100,000 content proved to be removed.
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