Posted on 23 April 2020
Twitter made a huge update to its COVID-19 guidance to address "Unverified claims that incite people to action,” including those that “could lead to widespread panic, social unrest, or large-scale disorder." Twitter Safety announced the platform’s plans to crack down on “unverified claims that incite people to engage in harmful activity, could lead to the destruction or damage of critical 5G infrastructure,” in an April 22 tweet. The Verge observed that this may have been spurred by the fact that “people have set British 5G towers on fire because...