Twitter No Longer Enforcing COVID Misinformation Policy
November 2022 brought with it a whirlwind of Twitter news, including an update to the platform’s policy on medical disinformation.
November 2022 brought with it a whirlwind of Twitter news, including an update to the platform’s policy on medical disinformation.
Conspiracy theorists spread screengrabs they claimed validated their push against taking vaccines for the virus.
A British Facebook user’s questionable post was quickly reproduced on the platform.
Social media posts suggested the August 2020 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally generated more than $12 billion in healthcare costs and may have led to as many as a quarter of a million new cases.
A viral post appears to contrast the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States on a single day in August 2020.
Dubious and dated stats about missing children spread in August 2020, among them that 2,000 children go missing in the United States every day.
A surge of interest in child trafficking and the restricted #savethechildren hashtag isn’t organic — it was a subset of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in the summer of 2020.
Inauthentic tweets and hashtags drove interest in “child trafficking” and led to the unearthing of a purportedly damning tweet from “proud pedophile” Patton Oswalt.
A viral Imgur post quoted Trump criticizing his predecessor in an interview for not having enough tests for a novel coronavirus — a virus that first emerged long after Trump took office.
One of many overdramatic circulating Facebook posts claims that the use of face masks is proof positive the United States has become “an obedient socialist country.”