- Rep. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, known for her promotion of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours, her office said in a statement.
- Twitter confirmed to Insider that Greene was temporarily “excluded” from the account, citing violations of its civil integrity policy.
- On Saturday, Greene tweeted a message saying Trump supporters should “partially mobilize and make your voices heard in opposition to these attacks on our freedoms.”
- Social media platforms, including Twitter, slammed accounts that spread misinformation and encourage violence following a deadly uprising by pro-Trump rioters on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, which angered conservatives.
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Rep. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended for 12 hours for using Twitter, her office said in a statement. press release Sunday.
“Just a few days after the Silicon Valley cartel launched a multi-front attack to curb freedom of speech in America by purging the abuse of President Donald Trump and an unknown number of conservatives, Twitter decided to suspend personal account without explanation, “Greene said in the statement. .
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Insider that Greene’s account was “excluded due to multiple violations” of it civil integrity policy. The company did not immediately respond to which tweets violated the policy.
Before her temporary suspension, Greene tweeted a number of times on Sunday, first about abortion prohibited, and in another series of tweets about Republicans lose their majority in the US Senate.
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Greene recently tweeted just after 11:45 in Washington, DC. In that post, she criticized Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Trump and his allies ousted Georgia election officials, Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, for refusing to help him reverse Biden’s victory in the state.
On Saturday, Greene tweeted a message and shortly thereafter deleted it, as archived by ProPublica, calling for “all Americans”, and especially Trump supporters, to mobilize.
“I urge 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 on Saturday. two hours after she was sent. according to ProPublica.
Greene is one of the GOP members of the House who objected to the certification of the Electoral College that confirmed the election of President Joe Biden over Trump.
Her suspension follows other high-profile suspensions on the platform, including the permanent suspension of President Donald Trump, following the January 6 violent and deadly uprising at the U.S. Capitol.
In the days that followed the riot that left at least five people dead, Twitter and other social media platforms took greater steps to reduce misinformation and stop the organization of violence ahead of Biden’s inauguration this week.
The suspension comes because the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned against armed protests at state-owned buildings across the U.S. and over the threat of further unrest in Washington, DC ahead of the inauguration day.
Greene is known for his views in line with QAnon, the unfounded, far-right conspiracy theory that gained notoriety among some Republicans, although Greene was the first person elected to Congress to publicly support the theory. In an interview with Fox News in August, Greene said she decided to choose another path after finding ‘wrong information’ within the QAnon community, as Rachel E. Greenspan of Insider noted earlier.
Ben Sasse, a Republican, has plagued Greene and members of his party for those who believe the nonsense theory, in a screaming open publication published by The Atlantic Sunday, around the belief that Trump is fighting a ‘deep state’ . ‘cabal of satanic pedophiles.
“The newly elected representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,” Sasse wrote in The Atlantic.