Twitter's Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy is Gone
Twitter's Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy is Gone
Correct me if I'm wrong.
My apologies for two Substack posts in one night, but it appears Twitter’s Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy has been removed. Likewise, the page is no longer connected to the company’s “How We Address Misinformation on Twitter” page.
Here’s the link to copy/paste and check for yourself. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misinformation-policy
If I’m not mistaken, the link was still active this morning when I checked it.
Wayback Machine’s last capture of the policy was November 26th. (See a previous version of the “How We Address…” page here.)
This is the same policy under which my account (@ewoodhouse7) was “permanently suspended” in July. The company claimed my direct-quote from and link to Wall Street Journal article by Allysia Finley constituted *medical misinformation* and subsequently denied all of my appeals.
Last Thursday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that most suspended accounts which hadn’t broken the law or engaged in egregious spam would be restored.
Today, Musk posted several tweets related to free speech, including one that said something called “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression” would soon be published on the platform.
@ElectionWizard reported tonight (via Platformer News) that Twitter is starting the process of reinstating 62,000 or so suspended accounts with 10K+ followers.
My account had ~38,000 followers and remains suspended as of 10:54 p.m. central.
UPDATE: h/t @justin_hart for finding this page, which says Twitter stopped enforcing the covid-19 misleading information policy on November 23, 2022. It still appears to me that the policy was removed altogether sometime today.
I cannot believe that we are actually discussing the fact that the President of the United States of America is about to publicly use the full power of the US Federal Government to attack another private citizen (after Donald Trump) who he disagrees with.
Any previous American President who attempted to do such a thing would have been driven from office and probably incarcerated.
Isn’t this a violation of the Constitution and Federal Law?
An American President and his political party attacking a private citizen for advocating free speech boggles the mind. This sure as hell isn’t the country that I grew up in..
After seeing the clip today about the Biden administration watching Twitter closely, I suppose they plan to go after Musk aggressively as soon as they find pretext for an investigation. And, it'll partly be because of restoring the suspended accounts. Direct retaliation.