You lie so you can’t tweet, Ga. pol is told
Controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was kicked off Twitter on Sunday for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.
The Republican congresswoman’s personal account has been permanently suspended for “repeated violations,” the social media company confirmed to the Daily News.
“We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy,” a spokesman said in a statement to The News.
The strike system, introduced in March, featured five different levels: no action for the first strike, a 12-hour account lock for the second, another 12hour lock for the third, a seven-day lock for the fourth and permanent suspension for the fifth.
The Twitter spokesman would not clarify which of Greene’s tweets earned her strikes.
The right-wing politician’s professional account remains active.
“Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth,” Greene (photo) said in a statement Sunday after her ban. “That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies. They can’t successfully complete a Communist revolution when people tell the truth.”
Greene’s personal account was suspended in August after Twitter marked her tweet about the “failing” vaccines as misleading. She’d previously been suspended in January for spreading conspiracy theories about the Georgia Senate runoff elections and in July for more COVID-19 misinformation.
In response to her bans, Greene has previously accused Silicon Valley companies like Twitter of “doing the bidding of the Biden regime to restrict our voices and prevent the spread of any message that isn’t state-approved.”
Social media sites have been accused of failing to curb the spread of misinformation on their platforms on topics like COVID-19 and conspiracy theories.
Former President Donald Trump was similarly banned from both Facebook and Twitter in January for election lies that incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Greene’s anti-vaccine stance has played out in person as well as online: she has been fined almost $50,000 by the House Ethics Committee for violating its mask mandate, The New York Times reported Wednesday.