Twitter decided to stop fighting misinformation about COVID-19

Twitter has abandoned its policy to combat misinformation about the CORONAVIRUS and vaccinations. The company did not specifically announce the rule change, but only added a new note to the page outlining the social network's policy regarding covid-19 .

"As of November 23, 2022, Twitter no longer enforces a policy regarding misleading information about COVID-19," the note reads.

In 2020, Twitter developed an extensive set of rules designed to prevent the spread of misinformation about the virus. Since May 2020, Twitter has begun deleting false posts about the spread and severity of COVID-19, as well as flagging controversial statements. In December, the company said it would remove posts that say the vaccine harms a person or is used to control people, as well as posts that contain false and debunked claims about the side effects of the drugs. In 2021, the social network began flagging posts that might contain misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.

Between January 2020 and September 2022, the social network suspended more than 11,000 accounts for violating covid misinformation rules and removed almost 100,000 pieces of content that violated these rules, according to statistics released by Twitter, according to CNN.

In October, billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, dissolved the board of directors, and took over the company himself. He began a series of transformations in the social network: he advocated an “amnesty” for blocked accounts, announced the imminent cancellation of references to which device the post was written from, and the introduction of a “paid” version of Twitter.