Moscow, SAEDNEWS, Dec. 17: Twitter has signalled that it will begin removing posts containing vaccine “conspiracies,” including claims that they are purposely used to cause harm and “control populations,” its latest effort to suppress “misinformation.”
Starting next week, the social media giant will excise all posts that “invoke a deliberate conspiracy” or “advance harmful, false or misleading narratives” about vaccines, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday, putting particular focus on inoculations against the coronavirus.
“Using a combination of technology and human review, we will begin enforcing this updated policy on December 21, and expanding our actions during the following weeks,” it said, adding that the new rule would be enforced “in close consultation with local, national and global public health authorities around the world.”
Users will be asked to remove posts that include any suggestion that vaccines “are used to intentionally cause harm,”“control populations” or are “unnecessary,” as well as “false claims which have been widely debunked about the adverse impacts or effects of receiving vaccinations.” Beyond its pledge to coordinate with health officials, however, Twitter did not specify how it would determine which posts qualify as “debunked.”
The company also said that, beginning early next year, it would attach “warning” labels on tweets that “advance unsubstantiated rumors, disputed claims, as well as incomplete or out-of-context information about vaccines,” expanding on previous moves to append similar notices to posts featuring claims of widespread voting irregularities and fraud during the 2020 election, with US President Donald Trump frequently becoming a target of the platform’s censors (Source: Russia Today).
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