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The social network Twitter also wants to show its willingness to do even more against Fake news.
The platform announced on Wednesday that it would demand the removal of false publications on Covid-19 vaccines from next week.
With this decision, the blue bird follows in the footsteps of Facebook and YouTube.
"In a pandemic, vaccine misinformation presents a major and growing health challenge - and we all have a role to play," Twitter's security team said in a blog post. .
The network may ask users to remove false claims suggesting that vaccines are used to harm or control populations, lies about alleged side effects or questioning the very existence of Covid-19 and the need for it. to get vaccinated.
Those affected will need to delete their messages to be allowed to tweet again.
Other measures in early 2021
From the start of next year, Twitter is also planning to put warnings under tweets containing baseless rumors as well as incomplete or out of context information about vaccines.
The platform already enforces rules regarding disinformation about the virus, but it had so far not announced specific measures for content related to vaccines.
As early as October, when vaccines were only in clinical testing, YouTube and Facebook announced strict regulations to ban vaccine misinformation and efforts to harm vaccination campaigns.
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