On coronavirus, Twitter discovers that policing speech consistently is difficult

Published April 9, 2020 10:55am ET



Twitter briefly suspended a right-wing grifting duo Wednesday after they ran afoul of Twitter’s expanded coronavirus guidelines banning “content that increases the chance that someone contracts or transmits the virus,” including denials “of expert guidance” and “misleading content purporting to be from experts or authorities.”

“The only way we can become immune to the environment; we must be out in the environment,” the duo known as Diamond and Silk (Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson) said in a since-deleted tweet to their more than 1.4 million followers. “Quarantining people inside of their houses for extended periods will make people sick!”

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