Public Health Official 'Strongly Encourages' Users to Not Trust Medical Information on Twitter

By Matthew Moore

Published December 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM CST

Twitter quietly released that they would no longer be enforcing their COVID-19 misinformation guidelines on the platform. This has left many public health officials, include Dr. Joe Thompson from Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, to advise people to stop trusting medial information published on Twitter.

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