Twitter has said it will crack down on accounts that publish false information again about Covid-19 vaccines.
The social media platform said it will not delay those who post false information about the pandemic and the various vaccines created to combat it, and that they will label tweets to provide better information to consumers about it.
Like the line they took with unfounded claims by former President Donald Trump about an election scandal after he lost in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
They will use a combination of automated and human reviewers to identify and record the sputum posts about coronavirus vaccines.
Those who choose to post suspicious information several times may initially be banned for seven days, but those who receive five or more ‘strikes’ will be completely removed from the social media platform.
In a press release, they wrote: “As health authorities deepen their understanding of COVID-19 and vaccination programs around the world, we will continue to expand the latest, most up-to-date and authoritative information. . “
This latest move follows on from their news in December last year that incorrect vaccine information would be taken from the platform.
There is a growing trend in vaccine suspicion worldwide, with more than 15 percent of Americans saying they would not ‘definitely’ get one of the three vaccines offered to them in a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
3 months agoTo date, the U.S. has approved nearly 77 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, with a third single-dose injection from Johnson & Johnson approved on Saturday.
The U.S. Chief Medical Adviser to the President, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has said that up to 90 percent of the U.S. population needs to be vaccinated in order to receive herd protection.
That means there is a long way to go, and the number of people planning to refuse an injection is growing.
Perhaps that’s why Twitter has decided to step in to remove some of the misinformation that could turn people’s opinions online.
The most comprehensive survey conducted in the UK showed that 72 per cent of people are willing to be vaccinated, with 16 per cent still very uncertain and 12 per cent very lazy to get the job.
Oxford University asked 5,114 people how they would feel about taking the Covid-19 vaccine from the NHS, and the results were published in the journal Psychological Medicine.