Twitter permanently suspends Greene's account over COVID-19 misinformation

Authored by thehill.com and submitted by Out_Worlder

Twitter said on Sunday it permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Marjorie Taylor GreeneGOP efforts to downplay danger of Capitol riot increase The Memo: What now for anti-Trump Republicans? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's meeting with Trump 'soon' in Florida MORE (R-Ga.) over the social media platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.

The social network said in a statement that it took the action after "repeated violations" of the policy.

“We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Hill in a statement.

As of Sunday morning, Greene's congressional account was still up.

In response to the suspension, Greene insisted in a statement published on Telegram that she was telling the truth.

"Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth," Greene said. "That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies."

Greene previously was suspended by Twitter several times for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policy.

In July, she received a 12-hour suspension from Twitter regarding two tweets she posted in which she falsely claimed COVID-19 was "not dangerous" for people who are under the age of 65 or not obese.

In August, her personal account was suspended for a week after she claimed that "these vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks."

Brittainthecommie2 on January 2nd, 2022 at 16:41 UTC »

Her whole existence in congress is to be a troll.

Without the premier platform to troll, her relevance is going to tank so hard and deservedly so.

She and her donors are going to quickly regret her actions and the consequences that came with it.

nighthawkcoupe on January 2nd, 2022 at 15:37 UTC »

Republicans: "we love the free market! Keep government out of it!"

The free market decides to not allow someone to tweet based on rules they agreed to, or require vaccinations for employment, or masks.

Republicans: "HELP big government!"

FlashbackUniverse on January 2nd, 2022 at 15:14 UTC »

Awesome!

This is a good way to start 2022!

Your move Facebook.