Twitter will start limiting extra content material coming from disaster conditions just like the conflict in Ukraine, the corporate mentioned on Tuesday, a coverage that may restrict posts at the same time as its potential new proprietor, Elon Musk, has mentioned he desires the corporate to do the alternative.

The social community will prohibit content material that misleads customers about conflict crimes, mass assaults and occasions on the bottom, amongst different issues. “As quickly as we now have proof {that a} declare could also be deceptive, we received’t amplify or advocate content material that’s lined by this coverage throughout Twitter,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of security and integrity, writes in a weblog put up. A warning immediate will probably be utilized over violating tweets, notifying customers the put up has run afoul of the corporate’s Disaster Misinformation Coverage, and Twitter will disable likes, shares and retweets, decreasing how far the tweet can unfold. Roth says actions like these can cut back a tweet’s attain by 30% to 50%.

Twitter and different social media corporations have turned to comparable measures in combating different types of misinformation—prominently doing so over the past presidential election. Twitter has been seen as a pacesetter on this area, usually coming earlier than like-minded initiatives from Meta, the guardian firm of Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp. And whereas the efforts could appear noble to some, it unquestionably locations Twitter in a troublesome state of affairs, needing to arbitrate what constitutes misinformation.

Underneath the brand new Disaster Misinformation Coverage, Twitter plans to depend on “verification from a number of credible, publicly out there sources, together with proof from battle monitoring teams, humanitarian organizations, open-source investigators, journalists, and extra,” Roth writes.

Traditionally, nobody has been happy with Twitter’s moderating actions. Liberals say Twitter doesn’t do sufficient. Conservatives, like Musk, say it does an excessive amount of. Ultimately, nobody’s pleased! And Twitter is caught taking it from either side.

The timing of this newest coverage arrives at a second of flux for the corporate. Musk’s deal to purchase Twitter is in limbo, and whereas he hasn’t had a lot to say publicly about what he intends to do with Twitter, he has been fairly upfront about his need for it to chop again on moderation. This tweet from Musk is exemplary of the place he stands on the matter:

In the meantime, Twitter’s board is urging shareholders to approve the $54.20-a-share cope with Musk at the same time as the corporate rolls out insurance policies that Musk will nearly actually dislike.

For now, Musk has been mum on this newest change to how Twitter polices speech—key a part of that sentence: “for now.”