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Twitter on Sunday permanently suspended an account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for “repeated violations” of the company’s COVID-19 misinformation policies, a company spokesperson said.
The company suspended Greene’s personal account @mtgreenee account on Sunday. Her official congressional account, @RepMTG, was still active Sunday morning.
“We permanently suspended the account (@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 said in a statement.
Under Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation policy, users are given up to five strikes for spreading potentially harmful and misleading information before their accounts are permanently suspended.
Greene responded on her Gettr account on Sunday, saying she was suspended for a tweet related to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“When Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out rioters on Twitter, and Chief spokesman for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani but I get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics,” said Greene. “Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth. That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies.”
According to the New York Times, Twitter suspended Greene’s account after she falsely tweeted about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths” and a chart with figures from a government database with unverified raw data.
The permanent Twitter suspension came months after the company temporarily suspended Greene in August for tweeting vaccine misinformation.
