Twitter Could Soon Label Trump’s Tweets as Misleading
This week Twitter further updated its misinformation policy, making further changes to how they handle Coronavirus-related mis and disinformation. Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, also confirmed that this new policy would apply to world leaders, superseding their standing world leaders policy.
In response to COVID-19 Twitter expanded its misinformation policy by broadening its definition of harm to include content that “goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.” This allowed the company more leeway to remove disinformation or add a warning label to content with mis or disinformation. Twitter also noted that harmful content from world leaders might also fall under this new policy.
Starting on Monday Twitter “may use these labels and warning messages to provide additional explanations or clarifications in situations where the risks of harm associated with a Tweet are less severe but where people may still be confused or misled by the content.” On Twitter, I asked Roth if this expanded policy would apply to world leaders, elected officials and/or Donald Trump. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan amplified my tweet and also asked Twitter for comment. Roth responded in the affirmative saying “These labels will apply to anyone sharing misleading information that meets the…
