Twitter bans publishing about prisoners of war

Twitter ▪ Community Guidelines - Privacy Violations ▪ April 6, 2022

By Mathilde Saliou, a third-party contributor

Starting April 5, Twitter will ban publishing “media showing prisoners of war published by government or state-affiliated media accounts” as part of their policy preventing content related to a person from being published without their consent.

This could impact coverage of the conflict by media outlets like Russia Today or Sputnik, which are notoriously linked to the Russian government.