Twitter Quietly Discontinues Covid-19 Misinformation Policy

A one-sentence statement appeared at the top of an old blog post

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Twitter’s policy on misinformation related to Covid-19 is no more, as the company quietly updated a nearly two-year-old blog post with a terse, one-sentence statement and no explanation for the move.

The social network said atop its updated blog post, “Effective Nov. 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy.”

Twitter could not be reached for comment, as the company apparently eliminated its media relations department as part of its mass layoffs earlier this month.

Since the company’s internal and contract content moderation teams were gutted, as well, the policy change may have been implemented due to a lack of manpower to enforce the previously existing policy.

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