{"id":54912,"date":"2022-11-30T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54912"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:00:53","slug":"twitter-wont-enforce-covid-misinformation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54912","title":{"rendered":"Twitter won&#8217;t enforce COVID misinformation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is no longer enforcing its policy about COVID-19 misinformation as part of changes made under new CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not formally announce the change, but a note was added to the top of the page about the policy to say that the rule was being rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29841019.13106\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ibG9nLnR3aXR0ZXIuY29tL2VuX3VzL3RvcGljcy9jb21wYW55LzIwMjAvY292aWQtMTk_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMS4yOS4yMiUyMEVNJTIwJUUyJTgwJTk0VGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyMC0lMjBIZWFsdGglMjBDYXJlI3Byb3RlY3Rpbmc\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB4366a164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29841019.13106\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ibG9nLnR3aXR0ZXIuY29tL2VuX3VzL3RvcGljcy9jb21wYW55LzIwMjAvY292aWQtMTk_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMS4yOS4yMiUyMEVNJTIwJUUyJTgwJTk0VGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyMC0lMjBIZWFsdGglMjBDYXJlI3Byb3RlY3Rpbmc\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB4366a164&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1669913470085000&amp;usg=AOvVaw16KVXeE5FUDlcjc7tQOkCv\">the note stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The platform suspended more than 11,000 accounts for violating the policy between January 2020 and September 2022, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29841019.13106\/aHR0cHM6Ly90cmFuc3BhcmVuY3kudHdpdHRlci5jb20vZW4vcmVwb3J0cy9jb3ZpZDE5Lmh0bWw_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMS4yOS4yMiUyMEVNJTIwJUUyJTgwJTk0VGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyMC0lMjBIZWFsdGglMjBDYXJlI2l0ZW0xOjIwMjEtanVsLWRlYzo\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBbdffe9fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29841019.13106\/aHR0cHM6Ly90cmFuc3BhcmVuY3kudHdpdHRlci5jb20vZW4vcmVwb3J0cy9jb3ZpZDE5Lmh0bWw_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMS4yOS4yMiUyMEVNJTIwJUUyJTgwJTk0VGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyMC0lMjBIZWFsdGglMjBDYXJlI2l0ZW0xOjIwMjEtanVsLWRlYzo\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBbdffe9fb&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1669913470085000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0TCuU_TVrVUZAXZLi8nkqK\">data published by Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The cessation of the policy\u2019s enforcement is part of changes Musk has made since closing his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter at the end of October. He has pledged to create a \u201cfree speech\u201d platform, detailing a vision for having less content moderation measures in place in a way that critics have warned will lead to more hate speech and misinformation on the site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Civil rights and other advocacy groups have been putting pressure on Musk to change course and bring back content moderation measures through a campaign urging advertisers to pull their ads from Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imran Ahmed, CEO of the the Center for Countering Digital Hate, called the rollback of the COVID-19 misinformation policy an \u201cirresponsible decision\u201d that puts lives at risk and \u201copens the floodgates to those who spread deadly lies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is no longer enforcing its&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54913,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54912\/revisions\/54913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}