Twitter to ban people who lie about coronavirus vaccines

March 02, 2021 20:39

Twitter will start applying warning labels to tweets that lie about coronavirus vaccines and ban people if they keep posting them, it has said.

The company has already attempted to tackle the misleading coronavirus information that spreads across its platforms.

Existing guidance has already led to more than 8,400 tweets being taken down, and 11.5 million accounts facing sanctions.

Now it will add the labels and add a system of strikes intended at punishing accounts that repeatedly push misleading stories.

It is the first time the company has specifially focused on posts about vaccines, though it has had broader guidance on how coronavirus misinformation more generally should be treated for some time.

It comes amid ongoing concern about the spread of anti-vaccination material on social media.

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