Twitter says it will issue permanent bans for COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

Twitter said Monday it will start labeling coronavirus vaccine misinformation on its platform and warned that those who violate its rules repeatedly will face permanent bans.

"Starting today, we will begin applying labels to Tweets that may contain misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines, in addition to our continued efforts to remove the most harmful COVID-19 misleading information from the service," Twitter said in a press release.

The vaccine labels may link to curated content and public health information or to the Twitter Rules page. Twitter said its goal with the misinformation labels was to provide users with "additional context and authoritative information about COVID-19."