Twitter announced on Monday it will put warnings on posts that contain what the platform considers to be misleading information about the CCP virus vaccines, as well as put into practice a strike system that would see users who repeatedly break their rules banned.
The enforcement would be monitored by humans who define what misinformation is, who are then assisted by computers through machine learning.
“Labels will first be applied by our team members when they determine content violates our policy,” Twitter said in a statement about the new rules. “Those assessments will be used to further inform our automated tools and to advance our proactive capacity to identify and label similar content across the service.”
The labels may link to content curated by Twitter, explaining that the company is aiming to uphold “high standards of accuracy, impartiality and fairness in our curation.”
One strike in the system would result in “no account-level action,” but a 12-hour lockout would come as a consequence for two strikes, another 12 hours for three strikes, a seven-day lockout for four strikes, and a permanent suspension for more than five strikes, the platform said.