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Covid, data on vaccines on Twitter in collaboration with the Ministry of Health

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Twitter’s commitment to accurate and timely information on COVID-19 and vaccines continues. From today, the social network has updated the message created in collaboration with the Ministry of Health that appears when users in Italy look for information on COVID-19, including information on vaccines. “This ensures – explains Twitter – that citizens can easily find correct information from authoritative sources when looking for terms and hashtags related to these topics”. # COVID19 was the most tweeted hashtag globally in 2020, and with the vaccine campaign currently underway, citizens continue to search for vaccine information on Twitter. The new updated message will allow them to visit two different pages on the Ministry of Health website according to their needs: general information on COVID-19 or information on anti-COVID-19 vaccines.

Ronan Costello, Twitter’s Senior Public Policy Manager in Europe, said: “Twitter can be an important source of information for many people. We have worked with the Ministry of Health since the start of the pandemic to ensure that citizens using Twitter have easy access to accurate and timely public health information. As of today, we have updated and expanded the message that appears at the top of users’ search results to provide not only information on COVID-19, but also vaccine updates. people looking for terms related to Coronavirus and vaccines will thus be directed to the dedicated pages on the Ministry of Health website. Twitter is committed to protecting conversations on the platform and ensuring that everyone can find information from authoritative sources is part of this mission. “. Launched in February 2020, the ‘search prompt’ is an extension of the information message designed to help people find clear, reliable and timely information on COVID-19, vaccination and vaccine safety.

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In December, Twitter extended its COVID-19 disinformation policy to tackle all Tweets featuring dangerous, false or misleading content about COVID-19 vaccines, and recently this initiative was further strengthened with the inclusion of a targeted system that determines when further law enforcement is needed. This system is intended to help raise public awareness of the platform’s policies and help further reduce the dissemination of potentially harmful and misleading information, particularly for repeated moderate and critical violations of Twitter’s rules. Since the introduction of the COVID-19 disinformation policy, more than 22,400 Tweets have been removed.

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