>One thing I can’t get my head around is Twitter censoring joke accounts. Do you think it was because they were under so much time pressure that they erred on the side of trusting the Government suggestions?

If a joke account specifies it's a joke account in it's profile information, great. But that content doesn't get displayed when someone shares a tweet made by that account.

Now, think about how many times you may have come across something on the internet that was a joke, but also easy to misread as a serious comment. Such is the nature of a lot of online dialogue.

You've now got a tweet that can easily be (mis)read as truthful, being shared by people on their accounts who could insist to their own followers (who might not do their own due diligence and look at the joke account's profile to see that it's fake) that it's real, and voila, suddenly you've got a joke being used to spread misinformation.

I'm not defending Twitter or taking a side here, nor am I saying that's what happened. But it's a possibility that that's one perspective taken.