US Republican Deputy Marjorie Taylor Greene had her Twitter account permanently suspended this Sunday (2) after violating the social network’s Covid-19 disinformation police.
The platform announced that it had blocked the personal account, which is most used by the congresswoman, but Greene still has access to her official profile. “We were clear […] that we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of this policy. [de Covid-19]”, justified Twitter, in a statement sent to the AFP news agency, without specifying the content published by the deputy.
Georgia representative Greene is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and his conspiracy theories that last year’s presidential election, won by Joe Biden, was rigged.
She is also known for her anti-vaccination publications and other publicized misinformation about the pandemic and for supporting QAnon — the theory that Trump was waging war against a conspiracy of child abusers.
After the suspension, the congresswoman released a statement through the Telegram assuring that Twitter is “an enemy of the United States and cannot stand the truth”. “All right, I will show the US that we don’t need him and that it’s time to defeat our enemies.”
The platform’s Covid-19 policy uses a system of fouls in which sanctions increase gradually according to violations committed. Greene, for example, already had his account temporarily suspended in August.
This Saturday (1st), the Republican had published on the social network that deaths caused by vaccine used to be taken seriously in the country, but now “an extremely high number of deaths caused by the vaccine against Covid are ignored”.
In addition to Greene, Trump also had his account permanently suspended after the Capitol raid on January 6 of last year, when a mob of supporters stopped certifying Biden’s victory.
The endorsement of acts of violence against congressmen, in addition to the defense of conspiracy theories, among other controversial actions, led the Chamber of Deputies to withdraw it from its attributions of two committees of the House, in February 2021.
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