Twitter to Begin Labeling Tweets Potentially Containing Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation

The social network also added a strike system for enforcement against repeat violators

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Twitter ramped up its efforts on misinformation related to the Covid-19 vaccine Monday, revealing that it will add labels to tweets that may contain such misinformation, and it will introduce a strike system to help determine when enforcement needs to go further.

The social network said in a blog post Monday that since it began removing misleading information related to the vaccine from its platform last December, over 8,400 tweets have been deleted and some 11.5

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