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Twitter expands content moderation rules to include more forms of misinformation around coronavirus
- The social media platform will require users to remove tweets that it says could place people at a higher risk of transmitting Covid-19
- This comes after a similar escalation of measures from Facebook to moderate misleading content about the novel coronavirus
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Twitter said on Wednesday that it is expanding its content moderation rules to capture more forms of misinformation around the novel coronavirus, following a similar escalation of measures from Facebook earlier in the day.
The company will require users to remove tweets that deny expert guidance, encourage fake or ineffective treatments and preventions or falsely purport to be from experts or authorities.
The goal is to capture anything “that increases the chance that someone contracts or transmits the virus,” it tweeted.
Twitter will also take action against claims alleging that particular groups or nationalities are more susceptible to Covid-19, calling out anyone suggesting that Chinese people are more likely to have the disease.
For its part, Facebook is putting a Covid-19 information page at the top of users’ feeds and disseminating verified material from trusted sources such as the World Health Organisation.
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