![]() Needleman wrote, “Twitter’s policy change makes it an outlier among major social-media companies on curbing COVID-19 misinformation. The Wall Street Journal’s Joseph De Avila and Sarah E. While Musk raises a fist in the air and champions what he believes is free speech, we see just how dangerous that his unfettered free speech can be. The Associated Press’ David Klepper wrote, “Twitter’s decision to no longer remove false claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines disappointed public health officials … who said it could lead to more false claims about the virus, or the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.” But with the rules thrown out, when COVID is still killing 300 Americans a day, the concerns go far beyond another dumb tweet from Greene. Tweets such as Greene’s are just silly and don’t really fall under the category of dangerous or qualify as misinformation. In addition, Twitter removed nearly 100,000 pieces of content.īut this appeared on Twitter’s website this week regarding “COVID-19 Misinformation” in the “Transparency” section: “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.” ![]() Based on Twitter statistics, Twitter suspended more than 11,000 accounts between January 2020 and September 2022 for breaking those COVID misinformation rules. Maybe her tweet was worth it just to see all the hilarious responses.īut there’s nothing funny about the headline on this story by CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan: “Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid misinformation policy.”īack in 2020, Twitter put in place rules to guard against “harmful misinformation” about the COVID-19 and vaccines. Just to be clear, there’s an actual scientific explanation about why Greene’s ridiculous tweet is, well, ridiculous. If a pair of underwear, really thick ones, high quality cotton, can’t protect you from a fart, then how will a mask protect you from covid?” She actually tweeted this Monday night: “So many people still wearing masks. ![]() Too bad Twitter didn’t shut down before we all had to read the latest dumb tweet from Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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