Twitter Inc. And Jack Dorsey, Chief Executive Officer of Square Inc., is speaking during an empowerment entrepreneurship program at Ryerson University in Toronto, Nantario, Canada, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.
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Twitter on Wednesday Announced That, starting next week, will be moderate and in some cases will remove harmful misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine, which will hit the U.S. this week. Was given in.
In particular, Twitter said it would prosecute false claims that vaccinations and vaccines are used to control the population, false claims that the vaccines have been widely debated about the adverse effects of vaccines, and false claims that Covid-19 Not real and therefore vaccination is unnecessary. The company added that it would act on vaccine statements that promote intentional conspiracy.
The company also said that in 2021 it could put labels or warnings on tweets that suppress unsupported rumors, controversial claims and out-of-context information about the vaccine. Those labels will lead Twitter users to authentic public health information, the company said.
This follows Facebook, which announced earlier this month that it would begin rolling out misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine as it began rolling around the world.
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