Twitter wants to make it easier for health experts to get verified. The company is taking new steps to open up its notoriously opaque verification program in order help elevate accounts that are “providing credible updates around #COVID19.”
“We are working with global public health authorities to identify experts and have already Verified hundreds of accounts,” the company tweeted.
The update comes as Twitter has taken more aggressive steps to beat back a wave of hoaxes and other disinformation that’s spread on social media in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The company previously announced it would ban tweets spreading fake cures or other inaccurate pseudo-scientific information.