“The risk of serious side effects is very small, but cannot be completely ruled out,” the website also reports. In rare cases, for example, severe allergic reactions can occur.
According to the MEB, which evaluates medicines together with the EMA, the chance of serious side effects after the vaccine has been approved is small. “Yet we can never rule it out completely. The studies were not large enough for very rare side effects. That is why we keep a close eye on the vaccines, even after approval.”
Discomfort with Referee Role
Aside from the discussion of facts, many are uneasy about Twitter and other social media companies being assigned the role of arbitrator of the free word. At the same time, there is also pressure on tech companies to ‘take responsibility’ against misinformation. “But it is a problem that the Twitter rules are not transparent”, says digital society professor José van Dijck.
“Traditional media also do selection and do not print everything. But then they explain why they do or do not do something. You can discuss with them.”
Twitter does not do that: the company does not want to indicate why this tweet was removed. It is clear that Twitter is serious: if Baudet posts ‘misleading’ tweets again, he runs the risk of being temporarily or even permanently banned from the platform.
Forum for Democracy is furious: “If an opposition party, one week before the elections, is censored in such a way, it says something about the state of our democracy,” said a spokesman.
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