Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter connected Sunday banned the idiosyncratic relationship of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for aggregate violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a connection from the company.

Greene's relationship was permanently suspended nether the “strike” strategy Twitter launched successful March, which uses artificial quality to place posts astir the coronavirus that are misleading capable to origin harm to people. Two oregon 3 strikes gain a 12-hour relationship lock; 4 strikes punctual a weeklong suspension, and 5 oregon much strikes tin get idiosyncratic permanently removed from Twitter.

Her bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Twitter had antecedently suspended the relationship for periods ranging from 12 hours to a afloat week.

The prohibition applies to Greene's idiosyncratic account, @mtgreenee, but does not impact her authoritative Twitter account, @RepMTG.

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A Greene tweet posted soon earlier her weeklong suspension successful July claimed that the microorganism “is not unsafe for non-obese radical and those nether 65.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, radical nether 65 relationship for astir 250,000 of the U.S. deaths involving COVID-19.

Greene antecedently blasted a weeklong suspension arsenic a “Communist-style onslaught connected escaped speech.”

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