Twitter announced on Sunday that it had permanently suspended one of Republican elected official Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accounts. She is accused of violating the rules of the social network regarding information on the Covid-19 pandemic.
The social network has closed his personal account, @mtgreenee, on which this fervent supporter of Donald Trump, known for his excesses, notably relayed many false information about the anti-Covid vaccine.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who also reproduced the allegations of electoral fraud brandished without proof by the former president, however keeps control of her account as elected to the House of Representatives @RepMTG, which she used less so far.
For her, vaccines “don’t work” and cause deaths
The social network did not specify which messages were problematic. But he referred in a statement sent to AFP to his gradual “penalty system”, which imposes several violations before suspending an account. The controversial elected official has already seen her account blocked for a week in August 2021 because she tweeted that vaccines “don’t work”. On Saturday, she again mentioned, without any factual element, “an extremely high number of deaths due to the vaccine against the Covid”.
Sunday, she strongly criticized the sanction. Twitter “is an enemy of America and cannot face the truth,” she wrote in a statement. “It’s okay, I’m going to show America that we don’t need them. “
The social network also banned Donald Trump after the assault on the Capitol, the seat of the American parliament, on January 6, 2021, by his supporters whom he heated to white by evoking a “stolen election”.