Twitter to permanently ban users who spread COVID misinformation – By Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera) / Mar 2 2021
The social media firm says users who continue to post misleading tweets about coronavirus vaccines face a permanent ban from its platform.
Twitter says it will start labelling misleading tweets about COVID vaccines and ban users who continue to spread such misinformation.
The microblogging platform introduced on Monday a “strike system” that will gradually escalate to a permanent ban after the fifth offending tweet.
“We believe the strike system will help to educate the public on our policies and further reduce the spread of potentially harmful and misleading information on Twitter,” the San Francisco-based company said in a blog post.
“Particularly for repeated moderate and high-severity violations of our rules.”
Twitter users will be notified when a tweet is labelled as misleading or needs to be removed for breaking the platform’s rules, earning a strike, according to the company.
