Twitter quietly removed its ban on COVID-19 misinformation last week

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Twitter quietly removed its ban on COVID-19 misinformation last week
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With moderation efforts gutted, reports also indicate the team tackling child sexual assault materials is down to a 'skeleton crew.'

“… [A]s the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines expands around the world at varying degrees of pace and scale, people continue to turn to Twitter to discuss what’s happening and find the latest authoritative public health

information. As such, we continue to prioritize removing or annotating potentially harmful and misleading information to ensure that users can readily find credible information during this critical phase,” the platform’s COVID-19 policy page

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