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Comment by hangphyr

I think Twitter's motivation isn't to reduce the impact of the virus, or that their management trusts governments this much. They're anticipating politicians looking for scapegoats, they're ensuring they can't take the blame from governments following any negative outcomes.

From Twitter's standpoint, if as a business their primary goal is to continue to at bare minimum exist, this is actually their most conservative and lowest risk option. We could debate all day on what sources of information have been the best, government or non-government, but I don't think Twitter is interested at all in considering that side of it.

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