//Twitter joins Facebook and YouTube in banning Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

Twitter joins Facebook and YouTube in banning Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, recently testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee. | Hannah McKay/Getty Images

The move comes as false rumors about Covid-19 vaccines are surging online.

On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will begin to take down Covid-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week. The company plans to remove false vaccine content that it considers “the most harmful,” and later on it will start labeling other posts that could be misleading.

“In the context of a global pandemic, vaccine misinformation presents a significant and growing public health challenge — and we all have a role to play,” the company said in a blog post. “We are focused on mitigating misleading information that presents the biggest potential harm to people’s health and wellbeing.”

Twitter’s announcement follows similar pledges from both Facebook and YouTube, which recently