Twitter has decided to suspend the official account of the elected American Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had spoken of a “Day of trans revenge” after the shooting which killed six people in a school in Nashville, in the United States.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, member of the House of Representatives and elected official of the hardest wing of the American right, posted a screenshot of the news on her personal account on Tuesday, saying that some posts from her official account had been suspended for violating Twitter rules.
“My official Congressional account has been suspended for seven days for featuring the Antifa movement’s violent action plan for ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’. In the aftermath of the mass shooting of children by a trans gunman,” tweeted the elected Republican from the state of Georgia, a critic of transgender rights.
Twitter security chief Ella Irwin said she had to “sweep” the platform to remove more than 5,000 tweets and retweets from the post.
“We do not support tweets that incite violence by anyone,” she said on Twitter.
“’Revenge’ does not mean peaceful protest. Organizing or supporting peaceful protests is okay,” she added.
The message “was re-forwarded by a large number of users on our network yesterday and I’m sure it’s due to heightened language sensitivity due to the tragic events in Nashville,” Ella Irwin said.
Six people, three children and three adults, were killed Monday at a Nashville school. The killer who was shot during the attack, Audrey Hale, was identified by police as a woman who used male pronouns on social media.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account had previously been suspended for tweets about vaccines that violated the social network’s rules on misinformation about COVID-19, and for false claims about voter fraud.