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Twitter bans false statements about Covid-19 vaccines

Twitter Inc said this Wednesday, December 16, that it will require its users to remove new tweets with false statements or inaccurate information about the vaccines against Covid-19 that can prove damaging, as part of an expansion of its rules on bad data around the pandemic.

The company of social networks he blogged that users could be required to remove tweets with false claims suggesting that vaccines “are used intentionally to cause harm or control populations, including statements about vaccines that mention a deliberate conspiracy.”

The policy, announced the same week that the first Americans received their Covid-19 vaccines as part of a mass immunization campaign, will also apply to false claims that the pandemic is neither real nor serious, or suggest that it vaccines are unnecessary.

The rule will also apply to false claims that have been widely discredited about the adverse effects of inoculation.

Conspiracy theories and misinformation about the coronavirus and its possible vaccines have proliferated on social media platforms during the pandemic.

Twitter said that beginning early next year it may also tag or place a warning in tweets that spread “unsubstantiated rumors, little proven or disputed claims, as well as incomplete or out of context data” about vaccines.

A Twitter spokeswoman noted that the company would determine with public health partners what vaccine misinformation was harmful enough to justify removing the content.

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