Twitter has permanently banned and removed the personal account of Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for her tweets that violated the social media platform’s misinformation policy. COVID-19, Green tweeted on Saturday about the “extremely high volume” of deaths related to COVID-19 vaccines.
Green posted on Telegram after deleting his personal account and called Twitter an enemy of America, which can’t handle the truth.
Under Twitter’s COVID-19 Misleading Information Policy, “content that is clearly false or misleading and that may pose a significant risk of harm (such as increased exposure to the virus, or adverse effects on public health systems) may be posted on Twitter.” Can’t be shared.”
For Content to be considered infringing under this Policy, the Content must either presuppose a claim of fact, be expressed in certain wording, be clearly false or misleading based on widely available, authoritative sources and is likely to affect public safety or cause serious harm.
The consequences of a violation of these policies are based on a strike system that operates on a range of 1-5. Permanent suspension is imposed if the account holder is given five or more strikes.
Who is Marjorie Taylor Green?
Greene co-owns a commercial construction and renovation company in Georgia with her husband. In November 2020, she won the US House seat from Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, where she ran unopposed after being knocked out of the race by her Democratic rival, Kevin Van Ausdal, in September 2020.
Earlier, Green had been widely criticized for some of the disturbing social media posts and statements that surfaced during the US presidential elections. She publicly supported the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory and even repeatedly publicly expressed racist views.
Despite this, she was a favorite of former President Donald Trump, who praised her and once even called her “the Republican star of the future”. Trump himself has repeatedly refused to debunk the QAnon theory, which suggests the former president is secretly fighting a high-ranking child sex-trafficking ring.
But after he was criticized by several Republican leaders for raising a distorted theory during his primary race against fellow Republican nominee and neurosurgeon John Cowan, Green distanced himself from the QAnon conspiracy, without explicitly condemning it. took.
In January 2021, Greene did dozens of Facebook Posts from 2018 and 2019, according to CNN, where she publicly supported several fringe conspiracy theories and showed her support for executing Democrats.
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