Twitter rolls again COVID misinformation coverage By Reuters

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(Reuters) -Twitter Inc has rolled again a coverage that was aimed toward tackling misinformation associated to COVID-19 on the social media platform, lending itself to the chance of a possible surge in false claims whilst circumstances rise in China and a few elements of the world.

The transfer additionally comes amid issues of Twitter’s capacity to combat misinformation after it let go about half of its employees, together with these concerned in content material moderation, below new boss Elon Musk.

“Efficient November 23, 2022, Twitter is now not imposing the COVID-19 deceptive data coverage,” based on an replace on its weblog web page. The replace was first reported by CNN on Tuesday.

The particular measures that Twitter will drop weren’t instantly clear, and the corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request to share extra data.

On the onset of COVID in 2020, Twitter instated quite a lot of measures together with labels and warning messages on tweets with disputed details about the well being disaster and a framework to have customers take away tweets that superior harmfully false claims associated to vaccines.

Meta Platforms Inc-owned Fb (NASDAQ:) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:) Inc’s YouTube companies employed comparable measures, that are at present in place.

Meta in July sought the opinion of its impartial oversight board on adjustments to its present method given the advance in genuine data sources and common consciousness round COVID.

Early this 12 months, Twitter stated that since March 2021 it had stopped imposing a “civic integrity coverage” associated to lies in regards to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Billionaire Musk took over Twitter on Oct. 27, paying $44 billion for the corporate, and has moved rapidly to provoke quite a lot of adjustments to product and employees. Musk stated on Oct. 29 he would arrange a content material moderation council with “broadly various viewpoints”.