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The debate over the limits of acceptable speech on social media is a discussion worth having, but the claim in the article does not match the wording of the policy at hand. The policy states that users will get a strike if they claim that “the vaccines will cause you to be sick, spread the virus, or would be more harmful than getting COVID-19" (emphasis mine).

The vaccine causing the spread of the virus is different than the known fact vaccinated people, infected elsehow, could spread the virus.

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It actually has two similar statements in the policy:

    - False or misleading information regarding the safety or science behind approved or authorized COVID-19 vaccines, such as:
      - The vaccines will cause you to be sick, spread the virus, or would be more harmful than getting COVID-19. 
      [...]
      - False or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misin...

So there's both a "can" and a "cause".

//How come you are "emphasizing" something not in the actual policy?

//Nowhere in the below do I find the word "cause":

//edit: the above is unfair and I believe I came in too hot

//Nevertheless the below quotation is what is being referenced by the article in question.

"False or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people."

Sourced from: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misin...

I just read it and the word “cause” DOES appear as originally stated.

First bullet under point #3

You are right, I came in hot.

Ha. We’ve all done that a time or two.

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