{"id":17686,"date":"2020-03-19T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/twitter-broadly-bans-any-covid-19-tweets-that-could-help-the-virus-spread.html"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:14:13","slug":"twitter-broadly-bans-any-covid-19-tweets-that-could-help-the-virus-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-broadly-bans-any-covid-19-tweets-that-could-help-the-virus-spread.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter broadly bans any COVID-19 tweets that could help the virus spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

You don\u2019t have to go far to find someone online downplaying the severity of a global pandemic<\/a> that\u2019s shut down entire economies and ground everyday life to a halt. Knowing that, Twitter will take extra steps<\/a> to remove tweets that put people at risk of contracting the novel coronavirus as it rapidly sweeps through communities around the globe.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Twitter <\/a> updated its safety policy to prohibit tweets that \u201ccould place people at a higher risk of transmitting COVID-19.\u201d The new policy bans tweets denying expert guidance on the virus, encouraging \u201cfake or ineffective treatments, preventions and diagnostic techniques\u201d as well as tweets that mislead users by pretending to be from health authorities or experts.<\/p>\n

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Content that increases the chance that someone contracts or transmits the virus, including:
\u2013 Denial of expert guidance
\u2013 Encouragement to use fake or ineffective treatments, preventions, and diagnostic techniques
\u2013 Misleading content purporting to be from experts or authorities<\/p>\n

\u2014 Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In its blog post, Twitter says that it will \u201crequire people to remove Tweets\u201d in these cases and we\u2019ve asked the company for more clarification on what that looks like.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0<\/strong>Twitter indicated that it will take context like account history into account in making its enforcement determinations, which it says remain unchanged. As far as having users remove offending tweets, according to the company\u2019s existing guidance<\/a> \u201cWhen we determine that a Tweet violated the Twitter Rules, we require the violator to remove it before they can Tweet again.\u201d A user is notified of this via email and given a chance to delete the tweet or make an appeal. While that is happening, the tweet is hidden from view.<\/p>\n

Given the new guidelines Twitter has outlined, the platform is going to have its work cut out for it. Under the ruleset, a tweet that claims \u201csocial distancing is not effective\u201d would be subject to removal. Twitter will also require users to delete tweets telling followers to do ineffective or dangerous things like drinking bleach, even if the tweet is \u201cmade in jest\u201d because that content can prove harmful when taken out of context.<\/p>\n

Twitter has also banned tweets that make calls to action encouraging other users to behave in a way counter to what health authorities recommend, with the example tweet of \u201ccoronavirus is a fraud and not real \u2013 go out and patronize your local bar!!\u201d Some political figures have faced criticism for similar statements in recent days, including Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) who encouraged Fox Business viewers<\/a> \u201cto just go out\u2026 go to your local pub.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rules will also ban tweets in which people play armchair doctor and make claims like \u201cif you have a wet cough, it\u2019s not coronavirus \u2014 but a dry cough is.\u201d Users will also not be allowed to make coronavirus claims that single out groups of people based on race or nationality, like discouraging followers to eat at Chinese restaurants. Other race-based claims<\/a> like John McAfee\u2019s tweet<\/a> that \u201cCoronavirus cannot attack black people\u201d won\u2019t fly either.<\/p>\n

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Facebook, Reddit, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube issue joint statement on misinformation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Twitter\u2019s new set of coronavirus-related misinformation rules is as thorough as it will be difficult to enforce. Many, many tweets would appear to fall under the deepened policy designed to prevent health misinformation from spreading on the social network.<\/p>\n

To meet the unique challenge posed by the pandemic, Twitter said it has put a \u201ccontent severity triage system\u201d in place so that the most potentially damaging tweets can be identified and removed, with less emphasis on users flagging the tweets themselves. The company previously announced that it would be relying more heavily on automation and machine learning to act on content that violates platform rules, which Twitter admits may lead to mistakes in some cases.<\/p>\n

In an effort to rise to the gravity of the situation, Twitter\u2019s policies lay out an aggressive and fluid approach that we don\u2019t always see from social networks. We\u2019ll be following along to see how the platform experiment goes in the coming days and if Twitter can help stem the flow of potentially lethal misinformation as the world wakes up to the global threat of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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