Twitter has quietly updated its \u201cCOVID-19 misleading information policy\u201d to impose new sanctions on tweets about vaccines, PCR tests, and health authorities. These sanctions include removing and labeling tweets. Both types of sanctions also result in Twitter users accruing strikes on their account which can lead to a permanent suspension.<\/p>\n
While the top of Twitter\u2019s COVID-19 misleading information policy page<\/a> currently states \u201cOverview November 2021,\u201d a December 2 archive of the page<\/a> shows that the page was updated and the \u201cOverview November 2021\u201d text was added after December 2.<\/p>\n One of the most notable changes to this \u201cCOVID-19 misleading information policy\u201d we noticed is related to claims about whether vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus. The policy now states that Twitter will label tweets with \u201ccorrective information\u201d and give users a strike if they:<\/p>\n – Claim that \u201cthe vaccines will cause you to be sick, spread the virus, or would be more harmful than getting COVID-19\u201d<\/p>\n – Post what Twitter describes as \u201cfalse or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people\u201d<\/p>\n This means Twitter users could now be sanctioned for sharing or discussing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC\u2019s) admission<\/a> that \u201cvaccinated people can still become infected and have the potential to spread the virus to others.\u201d<\/p>\n Another change is that Twitter will start giving a strike to and labeling the tweets of users that use research and statistical findings to \u201cmake claims contrary to health authorities,\u201d if it decides that their claims \u201cmisrepresent research or statistical findings pertaining to the severity of the disease, prevalence of the virus, or effectiveness of widely accepted preventative measures, treatments, or vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n Previously, Twitter would sanction what it deemed to be \u201cfalse or misleading\u201d information about research findings but there was no provision about contradicting health authorities.<\/p>\n In addition to this, Twitter will give users two strikes and remove their tweets if they claim that \u201cvaccines approved by health agencies (such as Pfizer\u2019s Comirnaty vaccine in the United States) did not actually receive full approval\/authorization, and therefore that the vaccines are untested, \u2018experimental\u2019 or somehow unsafe.\u201d This appears to be a reference to criticism of a footnote in the Federal Drug Administration (FDA\u2019s) \u201cfull authorization\u201d documents<\/a> for the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccine which revealed that the FDA had extended the emergency-use authorization for the same vaccine.<\/p>\n Furthermore, users that claim that vaccines are part of a \u201cglobal surveillance\u201d effort will have their tweets removed and be given two strikes. The introduction of this provision follows vaccine-related surveillance tech, such as vaccine passports, being introduced in many countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some of the other claims that will be sanctioned under Twitter\u2019s updated policy include:<\/p>\n – \u201cFalse or misleading information suggesting that unapproved treatments can be curative of COVID-19\u201d (label and one strike)<\/p>\n – \u201cClaims that \u201cvaccines (in general) are dangerous and the adverse effects that have been covered up by governments\/the medical industry\u201d (removal and two strikes)<\/p>\n – \u201cTweets that incite fear or misrepresent the ingredients or contents of COVID-19 vaccines\u201d (label and one strike)<\/p>\n – \u201cTweets that mischaracterize the nature and science behind mRNA vaccines, and how they work\u201d (label and one strike)<\/p>\n – \u201cTweets that claim vaccines alter genetic code\u201d (label and one strike)\u201d<\/p>\n In getting with the times, Twitter must now operate as a propaganda machine for Big Pharma and silence all criticism of their infallible consumer goods.<\/p>\n
\n