Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene account over COVID-19 misinformation

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Source: The Hill

Twitter said on Sunday it permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over the social media platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.

The social network said in a statement that it took the action after "repeated violations" of the policy.

“We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@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 told The Hill in a statement.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/587903-twitter-permanently-suspends-personal-account-of-marjorie-taylor-greene-over#bottom-story-socials

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1. Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account

This makes me smile

Link to tweet

Twitter suspended a personal account for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after "repeated violations" of the Covid-19 misinformation policy, the company said Sunday.

"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," Twitter said in a statement. "We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy."

Greene, R-Ga., appears to still have access to her professional account, @RepMTG, but Twitter did not say what was tweeted to earn a permanent suspension.

Greene said, in a statement Sunday through her office, that she was suspended for tweeting statistics from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

[Cha]

47. Rt TY for the Tweet.. pass that

news ON.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Just seeing the NYT breaking

Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account


By Davey Alba
Jan. 2, 2022, 10:23 a.m. ET

Twitter on Sunday permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia, after the company said she had violated its Covid-19 misinformation policies.

Twitter said that Ms. Greene had a fifth “strike,” which meant that her account will not be restored. The company had issued her a fourth strike in August after she falsely posted that the vaccines were “failing.” Ms. Greene was given a third strike less than a month before that when she had tweeted that Covid-19 was not dangerous for people unless they were obese or over age 65, and said vaccines should not be required.

Ms. Greene’s official Congressional account, @RepMTG, remains active because tweets from that account did not violate the service’s rules. “We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy,” Katie Rosborough, a Twitter spokeswoman, said in a statement. Ms. Greene did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Her suspension comes as coronavirus cases have surged again in the United States from the highly infectious Omicron variant. New York State recorded over 85,000 new coronavirus cases on the last day of 2021, the highest one-day total in the state since the pandemic began, officials announced on Saturday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/technology/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter.html

[Alexander Of Assyria]

37. Ha! Off to Griffter or Twister or whatever that thing is the fascists manufactured for the vile.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Rep. Greene has released a lengthy statement about her Twitter suspension. Here is an excerpt:

Link to tweet

[paleotn]

16. She stays true to form.

Stringing together the same handful of nutty statements in every tweet and press release.

[Botany]

19. MTG, "Communist Democrats"

Like Joe Biden who has helped Delaware to become the credit card capital of America or
Nancy Pelosi who is worth like zillion dollars or Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia he is worth
$90.2 million or Rob Reiner who is worth >$200 million.

I wonder if she even believes her bullshit?

[The Wizard]

33. Joseph McCarthy

minus the charm.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

39. Understands perfectly, I think, sir. The projectile verbal vomit is directed at the bleach drinkers.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

38. Lame, isn't it? Basically same drivel she and the fascists have been spewing for months.

At some point these flat earthers gotta lose their fan base, to reality….Covid fits the bill.

[Cha]

48. Rt TY.. "..methy freakshow.. " It's

perfect from Horse!

[keopeli]

4. She says she was suspended for tweeting statistics from VAERS, a CDC sub-group. So, we know...

it definitely was NOT that.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The anti-vax trolls will cherry-pick and link to valid data

that is completely taken out of context. We have had some one and done anti-vax trolls post on DU doing that sort of thing.

And as a FYI - "VAERS" isn't a sub-group but is actually a database that regulated industry reports their vaccine adverse events reports to ( "VAERS" = "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System" ).

The one for drugs is called "FAERS" ( "FDA Adverse Events Reporting System" ) and the one for devices is "MDR" ( "Medical Device Reporting" ).

[AZLD4Candidate]

20. VAERS as nothing to do with vacccine effectiveness

Only adverse reactions.

[IronLionZion]

30. VAERS is the general public reporting data on vaccine adverse effects

so it includes a lot of complete lies that CDC has to sort through to find anything worth researching.

[womanofthehills]

41. Actually, it's a felony to make a false report to VAERS

Most reports are made by health professionals- you can actually read the reports - very detailed reports to write - you need Vax number, history of patient, current meds - tests done on patient -people say it’s hard to fill out.

[IronLionZion]

42. Anyone can report to it here, including parents and patients

https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

Good luck proving this in court:

Knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 1001) punishable by fine and imprisonment.

You can search through it as much as you want on CDC Wonder here: https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

I searched through Moderna and saw things like Hunger, Fear, Mood Swings, Anger, etc.

I suppose my adverse event is that I am very skeptical of some of these reports.

[George II]

5. She's been hanging on a thread for months, yet still continued. I've reported a bunch....

....of her tweets claiming they violated Twitter policy.

It wasn't a matter of if it would happen, but when.

[Cha]

49. TY for reporting her, George!

[lapucelle]

6. Rolling Stone: MTG's Personal Account Permanently Suspended From Twitter for Pushing Covid Lies

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-permanently-suspended-twitter-1277768/

Happy New Year darlin'.

[Cha]

50. Happy New Year for Sane People!

The "methy freakshow" is Gone!

[George II]

7. Happy New Year:

[mcar]

8. Good

[Anon-C]

9. The 'Dr. Feelgood Story' of '22!

[Goonch]

10. ;-{)🖖‍

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. "What ever happened to the First Amendment!!!"

Nothing happened. I protect you from the government, not from Twitter. And I protect Twitter from being forced to carry the speech of US politicians.

"What ever happened to the First Amendment!!!"

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

18. ...

[Bengus81]

35. All those idiot Republicans say the same BS when they get booted off a privately owned web site

I've even see those dip shits spew that shit on a site like Next Door when their political posts get yanked.

[Cha]

51. lol.. Rt TY!

[Achilleaze]

13. Because they lie so often, the whole stinking G.O.P.-Russia black-ops machine

should be terminated

[PatSeg]

14. Heads up Marco Rubio!

Maybe you should think about deleting your earlier tweet about COVID being a "sore throat", not a real crisis. An apology would be nice too, but I'm not holding my breath.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1476991857699659777%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F%3Fcom%3Dview_postforum%3D1002pid%3D16203831

[dalton99a]

15. About time

[Arkansas Granny]

17. About damn time.

[George II]

21. This came to mind from Dandy Don decades ago:

[Calista241]

22. I still think this is bad for us.

The louder she's spouting her nonsense, the more people have the chance to hear it and recognize the crazy. I'd hate for her to be re-elected in 2022 just because her bullshit isn't at the same volume as it was in 2021.

[PSPS]

24. LOL. Who is "us?"

[maxsolomon]

27. LOL, what's been the fallout from deplatforming TFG?

blissful silence from what I see.

She will be re-elected in 2022; her district would rather cut off a limb than vote for a "Communist Democrat".

[Calista241]

29. That could come back to bite us in 2024.

I'd rather the media and a shitload of other randos be talking about Trump's crazy ideas, incessant bitching, and general unpleasantness, than to have moved him to the background like most of them have.

75 million of those fuckers voted for him in 2020, and if we didn't have the largest turnout ever, by far, he'd still be President. With him in the background, some number of Biden voters have forgotten how bad he was, how dangerous he was, how irrational and fucking bonkers having him in the Oval Office was.

I honestly don't know if we can duplicate that turnout again, especially after a bunch of Repub states have modified their voting laws. Arizona and Georgia have both passed voter suppression laws this year, and those states were critical to Biden's win. We're going to struggle to even re-elect Warnock, much less go for a Dem in 2024.

So by all means, enjoy the blissful silence.

[Jilly_in_VA]

23. About fcuking time

Should have suspended her for hateful conduct months ago.

[dlk]

25. Why the rush, Twitter?

[twodogsbarking]

26. Another badge for her.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Those darn Jewish space lasers

Link to tweet

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31. Raise your hand if you still have an active Twitter account

Link to tweet

[Cha]

52. lololololol.. who's that 1st Creep?

Rt TY!

[FakeNoose]

32. Thank You Twitter! It's at least 6 months too late

... but better late than never.

[SouthernDem4ever]

34. Now can they ban her from entering the Capitol?

That would make my Happy New Year complete.

[Mysterian]

36. It is an indictment of our society

that such a clearly stupid person is a member of our national legislature.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. For this thread

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cha]

53. Rtx2 TY ..

Twitter is having Fun with mtg getting Kicked OFF!

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43. MTG is fundraising off this ban

Link to tweet

?s=20

[godfree2]

44. After only FOUR strikes! we get none

[The Jungle 1]

45. Poor haggy maggie

She is ugly to the core. Something is rotting in her.

[Cha]

46. Wow.. I almost missed

this.. seems kind of huge to me!

Thanks Twitter!