Twitter drops COVID-19 misinformation policy

Published November 29, 2022 12:00am ET



Twitter says it will no longer enforce its long-standing COVID-19 misinformation policy that involved deleting tweets and suspending accounts regarding the coronavirus pandemic that the platform deemed as “potentially harmful and misleading information.”

The social media platform posted a notice to its website that it was abandoning the policy effective last Wednesday, one of the latest changes that the site has undergone under the helm of Elon Musk.
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