- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia republican known for promoting the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, was suspended for 12 hours by Twitter, her office said in a statement.
- Twitter confirmed to Insider that Greene was temporarily “banned” from the account, citing violations of its civil integrity policy.
- On Saturday, Greene tweeted a message saying Trump supporters should, in part, “mobilize and make your voice heard in opposition to these attacks on our freedoms.
- Social media platforms, including Twitter, have cracked down on accounts spreading misinformation and encouraging violence following a deadly uprising by pro-Trump rioters in the Capitol on Jan. 6 that angered conservatives.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, has been banned for 12 hours for using Twitter, her office said in a press release Sunday.
Just days after the Silicon Valley cartel launched a multi-front attack to cool free speech in America by de-platforming President Donald Trump and purging an unknown number of conservatives, Twitter has decided to suspend my personal account without explanation. Greene said in the statement. .
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Insider that Greene’s account was “locked up for multiple violations” of his account civil integrity policy. The company did not immediately answer which tweets violated the policy.
Prior to her temporary suspension, Greene tweeted a number of times on Sundays, approximately at first prohibit abortion, and in another series of tweets, about Republicans lose their majority in the US Senate.
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Greene most recently tweeted just after 11:45 am in Washington, DC. In that position, she criticized Georgia State Secretary Brad Raffensperger. Trump and his allies have lashed out at Georgia election officials, namely Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, for refusing to help him reverse Biden’s victory in the state.
On Saturday, Greene tweeted, and shortly after deleted, as filed by ProPublica, a message calling for “all Americans,” and especially Trump supporters, to mobilize.
“I encourage all Americans, not just the 75 million people who voted for President Trump, to mobilize and make your voice heard in opposition to these attacks on our freedoms,” she wrote in a tweet Saturday that lasted about two hours. after she’d shipped it, according to ProPublica.
Greene is one of the GOP members of the House who objected to the Electoral College’s certification of vote confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump.
Her suspension follows other high profile suspensions on the platform, including President Donald Trump’s permanent suspension following the violent and deadly uprising at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
In the days following that riot that killed at least five people, Twitter and other social media platforms took bigger steps to reduce disinformation and stop the organization of violence ahead of Biden’s inauguration this week.
The suspension is because the Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of armed protests at state capital buildings in the US and the threat of further unrest in Washington, DC ahead of the inauguration day.
Greene is known for embracing positions consistent with QAnon, the baseless, far-right conspiracy theory that has gained notoriety among some Republicans, even though Greene was the first person elected in Congress to publicly support the theory. In an interview with Fox News in August, Greene said she had decided to “take a different path” after finding “misinformation” within the QAnon community, as Insider’s Rachel E. Greenspan previously noted.
In a damning op-ed published in The Atlantic Sunday, Nebraska accused Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican, Greene and members of his party for giving in to those who believe the bullshit theory, centered around the belief that Trump is fighting a “deep state.” cabal of satanic pedophiles.
“The newly elected representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is a cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,” Sasse wrote in The Atlantic.