Some health officials worry that lies about COVID-19 could spread more easily, while others say policy wasn't that effective.
, as other platforms have. Even when it was in place, posts making bogus claims about home remedies or vaccines could still be found, while factually accurate posts were suppressed if they were perceived as critical of vaccination or masking. It was difficult on Tuesday to identify exactly how the platform's rules may have changed.
The virus continues to spread, although fewer Americans are dying from COVID-19 today than at the start of the pandemic. Nationally, new COVID cases averaged nearly 38,800 a day as of Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The numbers are far lower than last winter, but are also a vast undercount because of reduced testing and reporting of the virus. About 28,100 people with COVID were hospitalized daily and about 313 died, according to the most recent federal daily averages.
Musk, who has himself spread COVID misinformation on Twitter, has signaled an interest in rolling back many of the platform's previous rules meant to combat misinformation.to account holders who had been kicked off Twitter. He's also reinstated the accounts for several people who spread COVID misinformation, including that of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose personal account was suspended this year for repeatedly violating Twitter's COVID rules.
A search for common terms associated with COVID misinformation yielded lots of misleading content, but also automatic links to helpful resources about the virus as well as authoritative sources like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 coordinator, said Tuesday that the problem of COVID-19 misinformation is far larger than one platform, and that policies prohibiting COVID misinformation weren't the best solution anyway.
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