Twitter expands hateful conduct rules to ban dehumanizing speech around age, disability and now, disease

Last year, Twitterexpanded its rules around hate speech to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups. Today, Twitter says it’s expanding its rule to also include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of their age, disability or disease. The latter, of course, is a timely addition given that the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has led to people making hateful and sometimes racist remarks on Twitter related to this topic.
Twitter says that tweets that broke this r