On the company’s instructions page describing its policy on misinformation about COVID-19, you can now see a special addendum: “From November 23, 2022, Twitter will have no policy regarding misleading information about COVID-19.”

what is known

Twitter first implemented this policy in 2020 and started applying hashtags to tweets containing controversial information about COVID and its vaccines. The platform has removed tweets containing “clearly false or potentially misleading content” and permanently suspended accounts for persistent violators.

Given that Musk is currently starting a gradual recovery on his platform of previously blocked users, there is a possibility that there are or will be people among them spreading fake things about COVID-19. As the global epidemic continues, this will turn into a new wave of malicious sharing.

It should be noted that in 2020 Musk was distinguished by somewhat vague statements about COVID. call him “cold type”. He denied the seriousness of the disease, sought to disrupt the authorities’ measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus, claimed the “death rate was very low”, and even announced that he would not vaccinate his family.