Discord, one of the world’s largest voice and written group chat platforms, has not been as active as other social networks in combating misinformation about the pandemic until now. The company did not take any steps in this regard in the past. However, the news showed that the giant platform plans to change this attitude.
With the new community rules to be published according to the statements, Discord plans to block people from the platform who spread any false information, including false information that threatens the “public health”.
It will be taken action on servers that spread false information about COVID-19
As it is known, many internet platforms have made moves to prevent disinformation about vaccines and pandemic. Now, Discord has decided to update its community guidelines so that it can take action if lies are spread about COVID-19 vaccines on a server. Thanks to the new community rules, many different misbehaviors will be penalized, not just those who spread misinformation about COVID-19.
Discord will also be able to impose sanctions on users in serious cases such as hate speech against age, gender and serious diseases (cancer, etc.), threats containing death. In this way, it will be easier to clean malicious people and servers from the platform.
In addition, within the scope of Community rules update; It was also among the news that regulations will be made to punish those who gain something by spam, manipulative bots, fake accounts and imitations of celebrities. What are you thinking? Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us.
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