Twitter to ban harmful false claims about COVID-19 vaccinations

Twitter will start removing false or misleading tweets about COVID-19 vaccinations that could be harmful, including false claims vaccines would intentionally cause harm or control populations, or that invoke “a deliberate conspiracy”.

Twitter’s policy update, announced in a blog post the same week that the first Americans received COVID-19 vaccinations as part of a mass immunisation campaign, also said users could be required to remove tweets with false claims about…