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Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

Joe Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., is president and CEO of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and was Arkansas’ surgeon general under Govs. Mike Huckabee and Mike Beebe.

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Twitter’s decision to stop enforcing COVID-19 misinformation policy is irresponsible, dangerous

By: - December 6, 2022

Twitter recently made the irresponsible decision to stop enforcing its policy against COVID-19 misinformation. This decision is especially disappointing in light of Twitter’s formerly laudable efforts to protect its users from health misinformation. In a 2021 report, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy cited Twitter as an example of a social media platform that had made […]