Twitter announces a crisis misinformation policy, including adding a warning to highly visible tweets with misleading information and disabling engagement
The crisis policy broadens that enforcement playbook beyond a single subject area: Twitter is pairing visibility-based labels with the removal of engagement tools, making distribution controls part of its response to acute misinformation events.
First-order effects
Authors of misleading, highly visible tweets covered by the policy face warning labels and the immediate loss of engagement functions on those posts.
Twitter must apply its misinformation determinations alongside a visibility threshold, rather than relying only on topic-specific COVID-19 or election rules.
Second-order effects
The policy shifts intervention from informing viewers to constraining amplification: Twitter's earlier warnings before liking labeled posts were associated with a 29% drop in quote-retweets of misinformation.
Newsworthy accounts and other high-reach publishers have a stronger incentive to avoid claims that trigger labels, since disabled engagement removes a key mechanism for further circulation.
Third-order effects
If retained across future events, the policy establishes crisis moderation as a reusable distribution-control framework rather than a set of one-off rules for elections or health claims.
The later end of COVID-19 harmful-misinformation enforcement underscores that this framework's industry significance depends on whether Twitter sustains enforcement rather than merely publishes a policy.
The trend: Platform misinformation policy is evolving from labels alone toward combining contextual warnings with limits on how flagged content can be amplified during crises.
People turn to Twitter during crisis times to share news, find support, and stay connected. Today, we're launching a crisis misinformation policy so Twitter doesn't recommend or amplify viral, false content that can further harm already vulnerable groups. https://blog.twitter.com…
We're focused on ensuring people have access to credible information when it matters most. Today, we're introducing a new Crisis Misinformation Policy to help protect the conversation on Twitter, starting with a focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. https://twitter.com/...
Interesting this was introduced right after the disinformation board from daddy government was dissolved for 1A liability concerns. People are always telling you who they are. Think about what this says about who formed the policy and what values are deficient. https://twitter.co…
Don't worry everyone, when public outrage stops the regime from instituting their Ministry of Truth through Homeland Security, they turn to their corporate counterparts to get the job done. #CorporateCommunism is the real threat. Hopefully @elonmusk will be able to fix it here. h…
Twitter has a new crisis misinformation policy. Tweets classified as misinformation will not necessarily be deleted or banned. The company will add a warning label requiring users to click a button before the tweet can be displayed. https://www.theverge.com/...
Social-media giants have sought to control narratives on some key issues—e.g., they censored the Covid lab-leak hypothesis and the Hunter Biden laptop story. Now Twitter says it will sit in judgment on what constitutes “misinformation” on the Ukraine war. https://blog.twitter.com…
The examples given in Twitter's new “crisis misinformation” policy sound like preparation for an escalated or wider war https://blog.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Twitter's new crisis misinformation policy aims to prevent harm against vulnerable communities during times of crisis. Important to note this doesn't impact commentary, personal anecdotes, first-person accounts https://blog.twitter.com/...
In a brazen show of contempt for @ElonMusk's free speech agenda, “commie” @Twitter announces new policy to censor, vandalize and suppress user tweets. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Twitter says it'll now label and suppress misinformation surrounding crises like armed conflict and natural disasters, under a new crisis misinfo policy meant to slow the spread of viral falsehoods “that might bring harm to crisis-affected populations”: https://blog.twitter.com/.…
Might sound like I'm mocking Twitter but I think something like a Crisis Misinfo Policy makes a lot of sense, process-wise. I wrote in March that tech firms need a purpose-built policy for violent conflicts and probably should have had one before now. https://www.washingtonpost.c…
We've been refining our approach to crisis misinformation, drawing on input from global experts and human rights organizations. As part of this new framework, we'll start adding warning notices on high visibility misleading Tweets related to the war in Ukraine. https://twitter.co…
Twitter wins race to be the first big tech company to turn the rules it made up on the fly for Russia/Ukraine into an official policy. https://twitter.com/...
Especially during moments of crisis, misleading claims can go viral while the truth is still asleep. To help address these dynamics, we won't amplify or recommend potentially misleading content about crises, as soon as we find credible evidence a claim may be misleading.