Twitter ends its COVID misinformation policy

Twitter headquarters.
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Twitter is no longer enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy, which was developed and implemented in 2020 to combat harmful misinformation about the coronavirus and its accompanying vaccines.

Twitter did not officially announce the change, it seems; rather, per CNN, some users noticed the following update to the platform's rules on Monday night: "Effective Nov. 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy."

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.