Twitter reportedly suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account for “repeated violations.”
QUICK FACTS:
- Conservative Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was banned from her personal Twitter account on Sunday.
- Twitter said in a statement, “We permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” according to CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan.
- “We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy,” the statement went on to say.
- A Twitter spokesperson would not explain which of Greene’s tweets earned her strikes.
GREENE’S RESPONSE:
- Rep. Greene released a statement after the ban, saying, “Social media platforms can’t stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can’t stop the truth. I stand with the truth and the people. We will overcome!”
- Greene accused Silicon Valley companies like Twitter of “doing the bidding of the Biden regime to restrict our voices and prevent the spread of any message that isn’t state-approved.”
BACKGROUND:
- The strike system, introduced in March, featured five different levels: no action for the first strike, a 12-hour account lock for the second, another 12-hour lock for the third, a seven-day lock for the fourth and permanent suspension for the fifth, according to New York Daily News.
- Greene’s personal account was suspended in August following Twitter marking her tweet about the “failing” vaccines as misleading.
- The congresswoman was previously been suspended in Jan 2020.
- MTG’s work account, @RepMTG, remains active.
