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Twitter introduces labels for the Covid-19 vaccine as it continues its fight against misinformation

2,400 accounts suspended and 11.5 million challenged since Twitter launched its Covid-19 guidance.

As the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines expands, people continue to turn to Twitter to find the latest authoritative public health information. Continuing its efforts to remove harmful and misleading information from the platform, Twitter will now be applying labels to Tweets that may contain misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.

Starting today, labels will appear in the account’s display language and may link to either the curated content tab and the official public health information or the Twitter Rules page. Twitter’s team will initially apply labels to content that violates Twitter’s policies. Those assessments will be used to further inform Twitter’s automated tools


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