Twitter has permanently suspended the account of US Republican politician Marjorie Taylor Greene over sharing Covid-19 related misinformation.
According to CNN, the social media company said it "permanently suspended" Ms Greene's @mtgreenee account due to repeatedly sharing misinformation.
"We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy," a spokesperson for Twitter said.
A Twitter spokesperson:
"We permanently suspended... @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."— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) January 2, 2022
Twitter has previously issued a short-term suspension for Greene's account, @mtgreenee, for tweets about COVID that it called "misleading". At least two other Republican members of the House have received temporary suspensions on Twitter -- Jim Banks and Barry Moore.
"Twitter is an enemy to America and can't handle the truth," Greene said in a statement on messaging app Telegram, adding that social media platforms "can't stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can't stop the truth."
The official account of the congresswoman, @ReptMTG, remains active on Twitter and has 390,000 followers, slightly less than the 465,000 on her banned personal account.
Greene has come under fire before for remarks on the pandemic. Last June she apologized after comparing COVID-19 mask requirements and vaccinations to the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews.
Last January, Twitter temporarily locked Greene's account after she sparred with a state election official over voter fraud allegations.
Twitter and several other social media platforms banned former President Donald Trump from their services after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot on January 6th, 2021.
Additional reporting Reuters
