Covid-19: Twitter will now ban users that repeatedly claim vaccinated people can spread the virus – The Rio Times

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL Twitter has quietly updated its COVID-19 misleading information policy 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, leading to a permanent suspension.

While the top of Twitters COVID-19 misleading information policy page currently states Overview November 2021, a December 2 archive of the page shows that the page was updated, and the Overview November 2021 text was added after December 2.

One of the most notable changes to this COVID-19 misleading information policy the reclaimthenet site noticed is related to claims about whether vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus.

The policy now states that Twitter will label tweets with corrective information and give users a strike if they:

Another change is that Twitter will start giving a strike to and labeling the tweets of users that use research and statistical findings to make claims contrary to health authorities if it decides that their claims misrepresent 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.

Previously, Twitter would sanction what it deemed false or misleading information about research findings, but there was no provision about contradicting health authorities.

In addition to this, Twitter will give users two strikes and remove their tweets if they claim that vaccines approved by health agencies (such as Pfizers Comirnaty vaccine in the United States) did not receive full approval/authorization, and therefore that the vaccines are untested, experimental or somehow unsafe.

This appears to be a reference to criticism of a footnote in the Federal Drug Administration (FDAs) full authorization documents for the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccine, which revealed that the FDA had extended the emergency-use authorization for the same vaccine.

Furthermore, users that claim that vaccines are part of a global surveillance 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.

Some of the other claims that will be sanctioned under Twitters updated policy include:

Under Twitters current strikes system, two or three strikes results in a 12-hour account lock, four strikes result in a seven-day account lock, and five or more strikes result in a permanent suspension.

This means users with three tweets removed or five tweets labeled under this updated COVID-19 misleading information policy will have their accounts permanently suspended.

And as part of this policy update, Twitter has added new provisions that can result in accounts being permanently suspended, even if they dont have strikes.

We may immediately permanently suspend accountsif we determine that the account repeatedly violates the COVID-19 misinformation policy over 30 days, or if we have determined that the account has been set up for the expressed purpose of Tweeting false or misleading information about COVID-19, the updated policy states.

Labeled tweets may also be subject to additional restrictions, which include:

Agrawal has served as CEO, Twitter has censored several high-profile accounts, prohibited the sharing of photos and videos of people without their permission, and censored a link to the American Heart Association. A secret Twitter program that fast-tracks elite users takedown demands were also made public in the last few days.

Here is what the CDC says:

Also CDC:

Although it was clear from the beginning of the pandemic that symptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurs, presymptomatic transmission has also been described (16).

Furthermore, transmission from asymptomatic cases was deemed possible based on findings that the viral load of asymptomatic cases was similar to that of symptomatic cases

So according to the CDC

With information from Reclaimthenet

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