Twitter has stopped enforcing its Covid-19 misinformation policy under Elon Musk's ownership
Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid-19 misleading information policy, per a post on its website.This is one of many changes around content moderation that has occurred under Elon Musk's ownership.Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid-19 misleading information policy that it put in place in March 2020, per aThe update to the policy was made effective on November 23 and is an indicator of how the platform's new owner, Elon Musk, is changing the company.
The policy also targeted tweets that made misleading claims about"unharmful but ineffective methods" that"are cures or absolute treatments for Covid-19." In March 2021, Twitter doubled down, announcing it would use automated and human reviewers to find and about Covid-19 vaccines. The platform also introduced a strike system where users with five or more"strikes" for misleading posts would be permanently suspended from Twitter.it suspended over 11,000 accounts and removed almost 100,000 pieces of content worldwide for violating its Covid-19 misinformation policy.
Musk, himself, has a history of using Twitter to spread Covid-19 misinformation and of not following COVID-19 guidelines. In May 2020, he
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