Twitter said on Sunday that it had permanently suspended the personal account of outspoken Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene because it violated the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.
This congressman from Georgia is a loud and ardent supporter of Donald Trump and his false statement about the stolen 2020 election, and has also used a weird anti-vaccination against the coronavirus pandemic Statements and other false statements are famous.
Twitter stated that it is closing Greene’s personal account-@mtgreenee-for repeated violations of its COVID misinformation policy. She can still access her official Twitter account, which is a personal account that @RepMTG.Greene uses more frequently.
Twitter said in a statement to AFP: “We have permanently suspended the account you cited (@mtgreenee) because of repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
It added: “We have made it clear that in accordance with our strike system against this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts that have repeatedly violated the policy,” it added. Twitter did not specify what Green said should be punished.
Green fought back after being suspended and said in a Telegram statement that Twitter is “the enemy of the United States and cannot handle the truth. It doesn’t matter, I will tell the United States that we don’t need them, it’s time to defeat our enemy.”
Twitter’s COVID misinformation provided police employees with a strike system that gradually escalated sanctions for violations.
For example, one strike was inconclusive; three strikes resulted in an account lockout for 12 hours, and five strikes resulted in permanent suspension.
Before the permanent suspension, Twitter had sanctioned Green.
After she tweeted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should not approve the COVID vaccine, her account was suspended for a week in August because they “failed” to slow the spread of the virus.
On Saturday, she said on Twitter that the United States had taken vaccine-related deaths seriously in the past, but now “a lot of COVID vaccine deaths have been ignored and the government’s mandatory vaccination requirements have increased.”
A year ago, after Trump’s supporters rioted in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Twitter barred Trump from accessing the platform. Trump’s supporters claimed that he had been deprived of his views on Joe Biden. victory.
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