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Twitter Permanently Mutes Marjorie Taylor Greene Account for Spreading COVID Misinformation 

Twitter takes away the Georgia representative’s toys after she reportedly violates the platform’s rules.
Twitter Permanently Mutes Marjorie Taylor Greene Account for Spreading COVID Misinformation
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a U.S. Congresswoman who once suggested that the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert was a hoax and that the weather might be manipulated by a space laser run by Jews, will have one fewer venue in which to impart her wisdom. The social media app Twitter (you’ve probably heard of it) took the step Sunday to permanently ban her account, news outlets confirmed.

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This is a permanent suspension of her personal account, @mtgreenee, which had 465,000 followers as of yesterday. Her “work account,” @RepMTG, with 389,000 followers, is still up, though it has been inactive since Christmas Eve.

NPR reported that the removal of Greene’s personal account was for “repeated violations of [Twitter’s] COVID-19 misinformation policy.” In a statement, Greene responded that Twitter was an “enemy to America and can’t handle the truth.” She added: “Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can’t stop the truth.”

The New York Times noted that Greene’s account was suspended “after she tweeted on Saturday, falsely, about ‘extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.’” She reportedly reached a fifth strike after a recurring pattern of behavior in violation of Twitter’s multiple strikes rule concerning misleading information about COVID-19. (Twitter “allows accounts to submit an appeal and will potentially reverse the suspension if the violating post is proven to be factual,” the Times pointed out.)

In August, when Greene said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “should not approve the covid vaccines,” and also falsely called the vaccines ineffective, Twitter suspended her for one week after labeling her message as “misleading.” At the time CNN called it “at least the third” censure from the platform.

In December of last year, Greene published a four-part thread on Twitter in which she compared American death totals between COVID-19 and cancer and wondered why the latter did not force schools to close. (Whether the Georgia Republican incorrectly thinks that cancer is contagious and can be spread via airborne particles is unknown.) 

In July, she tweeted that the COVID-19 vaccines should not be “forced on our military” because the virus is “is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65.” This is, I’m sure we need not tell you, a lie.

Twitter’s move was celebrated by some platform users who regularly draw awareness to Greene’s terrible tweets.

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