Twitter to remove harmful fake news about coronavirus
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#50YPE)
Site changes rules to ban content aimed at making people act against official advice
Twitter will remove tweets that run the risk of causing harm by spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19, the company has said, after weeks of criticism that its policies on misinformation were too lax.
Now, the social network says, it will be applying a new broader definition of harm to address content that "goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information".
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