With the start of vaccination against the new coronavirus in Europe and the United States, Twitter Inc. of the United States has indicated that it is a serious issue to deal with false information about the vaccine and will work to remove lie and misleading posts.
On the 16th, Twitter announced a new policy regarding postings on the new coronavirus, revealing its response to misleading information about vaccines.
In this, Twitter said that responding to false information about vaccines is a serious issue in the global spread of the new virus, and "to reduce information that may harm people's health. I will concentrate. "
On top of that, he said he would work on deleting posts that contained lie and misleading information, and announced that he would request posters to delete these posts from next week.
As specific examples, we give false information about side effects and claims that "vaccines are used for population control" and "there is no new virus and no vaccination is required".
It also warns against posts that contain unfounded rumors, controversial claims, or incomplete information about vaccines.
Regarding posts related to vaccines on SNS, Facebook also has a policy to delete it if it judges that it is incorrect information.