PRESS RELEASE
The Commission publishes today the new reports by Twitter, TikTok, Google, Facebook and Microsoft on measures they took in March 2021 against coronavirus and vaccine disinformation as signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation.
Twitter reports it has started to place a warning on tweets that advance unsubstantiated rumours, disputed claims, as well as incomplete or out-of-context information about vaccines.
TikTok reports that a tag has been applied to 7687 videos with words or hashtags related to vaccine in the EU.
Google continued to expand a feature which surfaces a list of authorised vaccines, statistics, and more in users' locations in response to searches for information on coronavirus vaccines.
Facebook expanded their tools to help people getting vaccinated by adding labels displaying World Health Organisation information on related posts.
Microsoft's LinkedIn now features official information about vaccines and vaccination on their official page to which users are redirected when searching for coronavirus-related keywords.
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