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‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content

‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/21/twitter-anti-vax-health-misinformation

Platform’s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation

As the troubled social media platform Twitter rolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever.