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Twitter COVID-19 policy now includes vaccine misinformation

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Many people get their news and information faster from social media but the Internet doesn’t always come with the guarantee of accuracy or truthfulness. Social
Many people get their news and information faster from social media but the Internet doesn’t always come with the guarantee of accuracy or truthfulness. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have been trying to clean up their networks of information that could land them in very hot legal waters. They have so far weathered the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US Elections but now they are facing the next big challenge: COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. As if the regular flu vaccine weren’t enough, Twitter now has to deal with misinformation, fake news, and conspiracies that combine both the notion of vaccines with the already controversial coronavirus.

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