Twitter wants to put an end to false reports about corona vaccinations

SAN FRANCISCO (dpa-AFX) – Misleading tweets and targeted false information about vaccinations against the coronavirus, the short message service Twitter wants to provide warnings or delete them entirely. Twitter announced this tightening of rules on Wednesday via the official company blog. Accordingly, from next week not only tweets should be removed that spread absurd conspiracy theories about vaccines, such as the one that the drugs are supposedly intended to control the population. False claims about supposed health damage from vaccinations, which have been scientifically refuted, or the denial of any danger from the virus should no longer be tolerated.

From the beginning of next year, Twitter also wants to put a warning notice on tweets that contain contentious representations or incomplete, out of context information about vaccines. Such tweets could be provided with further links to the Twitter terms of use and reliable information about the corona virus, it said in the blog entry. The short message service wanted to support the fight against the pandemic led by scientists and governments.

“In the context of a global pandemic, misinformation about vaccines is a significant and increasing challenge for public health – and we all have a role to play,” the Twitter blog explains ./mk/DP/zb

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