SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company.
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Greene’s account was permanently suspended under the “strike” system Twitter launched in March, which uses artificial intelligence to identify posts about the coronavirus that are misleading enough to cause harm to people. Two or three strikes earn a 12-hour account lock; four strikes prompt a weeklong suspension, and five or more strikes can get someone permanently removed from Twitter.
Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter had previously suspended the account for periods ranging from 12 hours to a full week.
The ban applies to Greene’s personal account, @mtgreenee, but does not affect her official Twitter account, @RepMTG.
A Greene tweet posted shortly before her weeklong suspension in July claimed that the virus “is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people under 65 account for nearly 250,000 of the U.S. deaths involving COVID-19.
Greene previously blasted a weeklong suspension as a “Communist-style attack on free speech.”
Communism at its best. This gets scarier by the day how we are being controlled like puppets. Time to stand up with force! Remember when you were told that once you get vaccinated you will be safe and and you can remove your mask?? Now even with a third booster you need a mask? So I’m confused, masks work better than the vaccine? Or are both trash??
Oh and by the way, all her so called misinformation is all stuff that is going to be said by mainstream media in about a year as the narrative shifts once again
The fact checkers are all biased with ties to big pharma and the fake news
None of them are independent or truth seekers they are just fact pushers that insist we all believe their version of the truth until they backtrack…
For example if someone says the vaccine doesn’t prevent getting infected from covid that’s “misinformation” but we all know it’s 100% truth
This is censorship at its worst
We’ve seen a pattern with this pandemic:
Today’s misinformation will be tomorrow’s truth.
This country was founded in freedom of speech this is controlling opposition and a persons ability to express their opinion. Haven’t seen them shut down anti Semitic or Christian rants Or rants snd threats to conservatives
Remember since covid started, everything the democrats and their media propagandists jave called conspiracy theories, disinformation, or lies, have all turned out to be true. The left are lying scum.
But farrakhan is fine
This is the opinion of Twitter and should be presented parenthetically as it is openly subjective.
So sick of social media sights deciding liberal crap can and does get spewed daily while conservative viewpoints get banned.
The tweets of Ms Taylor Greene that I’ve seen are mostly accusations that anything the opposes is communist or communism. Reminds me of Senator Joe McCarthy who saw communists everywhere.
Besides tweeting, raising money for her campaign and walking into Congress without a mask, what has she done?
Dems & Fake Media lie like rugs. Twitter loves that.
She will have so much more time to devote to legislation now that she’s not wasting her time on Twitter.
Is this the space laser lady?
Sorry the lady is nuts, and Twitter is a private company so freedom of speech is not relevant at all.
What does “permanently suspended” even mean? Closing or cancelation of an account may be permanent, “suspended” implies temporary.
I’m any event, I am pretty ambivalent on this. On the face of it, silencing an erroneous opinion shouldn’t be the norm. But the other side to this is: social media companies can’t and should be able to stop spreading harmful misinformation about the pandemic and the vaccines if they so choose.
Therin lies the dilemma.
I congratulate Twitter!!