Twitter cracks down on Covid vaccine misinformation


The company said March 1 that it has started using human reviewers to assess whether tweets violate its policy against Covid vaccine misinformation. — AP

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter says it has begun labelling tweets that include misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines and using a “strike system” to eventually remove accounts that repeatedly violate its rules.

The company said March 1 that it has started using human reviewers to assess whether tweets violate its policy against Covid vaccine misinformation. Eventually, the work will be done by a combination of humans and automation, it said.

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