Twitter cracks down on Covid vaccine misinformation

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Twitter says it has begun labeling tweets that include misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines and using a “strike system” to eventually remove accounts that repeatedly violate its rules.

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The company said Monday that it has started using human reviewers to assess whether tweets violate its policy against Covid vaccine misinformation.March 2, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

The company said Monday that it has started using human reviewers to assess whether tweets violate its policy against Covid vaccine misinformation. Eventually, the work will be done by a combination of humans and automation, it said. Twitter had already banned some Covid-related misinformation in December, including falsehoods about how the virus spreads, whether masks are effective and the risk of infection and death.

“Through the use of the strike system, we hope to educate people on why certain content breaks our rules so they have the opportunity to further consider their behavior and their impact on the public conversation,” Twitter said in aPeople with one violation — or strike — will see no action. Two strikes will lead to an account being locked for 12 hours. Five or more will get a user permanently banned from Twitter.its vaccine misinformation fight after years of half-hearted enforcement.

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That's really very grateful for many duplicated vaccines have been smuggled in most of African countries and it's really dangerous.Awareness should be created among all people.

About time !

Dalocoengineer Little by little, step by step, no more Twitter forum.

notcapnamerica Literally 12 whole months late.

How bout just deleting them instead.

The system leaves a little to be desired since it doesn’t quite understand sarcasm.

About time ,they are more than a day late and definitely a dollar short but they are better than Facebook .

Year too late

Twitter Dr Fauci should be the first one to be censored, his story keeps changing.

Who is the authority on the vaccine that Twitter is relying on for accuracy ? Curious !

LOL America wouldn't be in half the position it's in if Twitter had been doing this with ALL misinformation and conspiracy theories FROM THE BEGINNING!!!

something has to be done, i guess this works. anti vaxxers were always a problem, but now we are in the middle of a pandemic and misinformation is just too deadly.

I remember that there was a report that China used the epidemic to increase the control of public opinion on the Internet, and now the United States should learn from China?

Twitter good start but you can go anywhere on Twitter and see people misinforming people about Covid and saying it’s a hoax ? That’s ok but if I want to say something that’s deemed offensive I’m booted off

Give me a break.

Why did it take this long?COVID19Vaccine

So my joke about setting off car alarms after my vaccination could get be a strike or worse?! WTF twitter.

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