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Twitter blocked links to Daily Mail article that questioned Covid death stats

Suggested the link was "unsafe."

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Update: Twitter appeared to stop blocking links to the article at around 10.35AM EDT. The original article follows.

Twitter has put a warning on an article from the UKโ€™s Daily Mail, one of the biggest news outlets in the country, that describes the article as potentially being โ€œunsafe.โ€

The article is written by the newspaperโ€™s deputy health editor, Eve Simmons, and discusses how official government figures vastly overstated the COVID-19 death rate due to bad reporting.

โ€œWarning: this link may be unsafe,โ€ Twitter displays when users  go to click the link to the article.

โ€œThe link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with Twitterโ€™s URL Policy,โ€ it says at the time of writing.

Itโ€™s unclear who these โ€œpartnersโ€ are that have called for the censorship of the article.

โ€œHealth chiefs admitted, embarrassingly, that the numbers theyโ€™d been feeding the Government were only an approximation โ€“ provoking fury from Ministers,โ€ the article reads.

โ€œMore recently it was revealed that a quarter of Omicron deaths included in the daily figures did not, in fact, list Covid as a primary cause.

โ€œMore than two years since Covid-19 emerged, many feel they want a simple answer: how many were killed by this virus?โ€

Twitterโ€™s URL blocking feature is often used for articles that are thought to be a security risk or for URLs that pose a phishing attack risk. Yet, this URL is to a prominent mainstream media article and isnโ€™t the type of warning that Twitter usually uses to try and discredit a news story; it tends to favor โ€œmisinformationโ€ labels for that.

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