According to Mediaite, Twitter has quietly changed their policy and will not penalize, even ban people for claiming that those who are vaccinated can still spread COVID-19:
Twitter will begin imposing penalties on users who claim that vaccinated people can spread Covid-19, according to a change quietly added to the website’s terms of service.
“When tweets include misleading information about Covid-19, we may place a label on those tweets that includes corrective information about that claim,” the website notes in a section detailing its rules about Covid-19 misinformation. “We may apply labels to tweets that contain, for example… false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people.”
Users can receive penalties up to a permanent ban.
The change was made on Dec. 2, according to Wayback Machine archives retrieved by Reclaim the Net. The policy contradicts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, which notes the “risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in fully vaccinated people cannot be completely eliminated as long as there is continued community transmission of the virus.”
Penalties range from a 12-hour account lock after the second strike, and a permanent suspension — or ban — on the fifth strike.
It not only contradicts CDC policy, the CDC Director herself recently said that people who are vaccinated can still spread COVID-19:
Not only can the vaccinate still spread the virus, they can also contract the virus, which is why we have the term ‘breakthrough infection’.
But hey, Twitter must know better than doctors and the CDC when it comes to the science of viral transmission and I can’t wait to see the data they base this own.