Twitter quietly drops Covid-19 misinformation prevention policy

The company did not publicly announce the change

Twitter has dropped the Covid-19 misinformation policy on the social media platform (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Twitter has quietly ended the enforcement of its policy to stop the spread of Covid-19 misinformation on the site.

The social media platform introduced the policy during the pandemic and used it to remove thousands of misleading tweets as part of efforts to stop the spread of “potentially harmful and misleading information” about Covid-19 and vaccines.