Twitter discontinues Covid misinformation policy under Elon Musk

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Twitter discontinues Covid misinformation policy under Elon Musk
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Twitter discontinues Covid misinformation policy under Elon Musk

Musk is also said to have reduced the size of the team responsible for stopping child sexual exploitation on the platform

Twitter is no longer enforcing a policy to remove misleading or inaccurate material on Covid-19. "Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information ...

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