Twitter changes its rules to eliminate tweets about the coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic is showing, on the one hand, the best side of many, but also the baseness of many. These days hoaxes and fake news are running through WhatsApp and social networks. The security forces and bodies are working to report all the possible hoaxes generated these days. Now Twitter has decided to keep its social network safe, nipping all this misinformation in the bud.

Although the idea may be supported by many and even applauded, this can pose a significant problem. The line of censorship is very thin and opinions against the management could be liable to be eliminated. It would not be the first time that Twitter has indiscriminately blocked user accounts.

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Twitter Spain will eliminate hoaxes and false information about the coronavirus

To announce this, the official Spain Twitter account has published several tweets about the modification of the rules. Within this thread it stands out that the contents will be eliminated in the following cases:

• Include "content that denies the recommendations of global or local health authorities and increases the chances of contagion"
• "Deny the advice of the experts"
• "Encourage the use of harmful treatments or protective measures that are known to be ineffective"
• Include “misleading content posing as experts or authorities”

The strangest thing of all is that this announcement was made by the Spain Twitter account, not by global Twitter. And as is logical, the controversy regarding this measure has not been long in coming. The line with censorship is quite fine and the points made can be widely interpretable. Even some of the tweets from the accounts of the Government of Spain could suffer this 'censorship'

Perhaps this has to do with the enigmatic message from the Civil Guard Colonel released last Sunday, in which he dropped that they would control the information that was published. We add to this the hundreds of fake Facebook accounts that supported the publications of the Government of Spain. The latter is currently being investigated, but it appears to be fake accounts, allegedly paid by the Government.