Twitter will no longer punish users who post what some think is misleading or false information related to COVID-19 on its platform.
Twitter did not publicly announce the decision, opting to put a disclaimer on the page concerning its COVID-19 information policy.
“Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the page reads.
That policy had put disclaimers on tweets that included disputed information about vaccines or the COVID-19 virus. “Egregiously false” information usually resulted in account suspensions and the removal of the tweet.
Twitter first rolled out the policy in 2020 and over the past few years saw over 11,000 accounts suspended as a result.