Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week following violation of platform rules
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Via: john-russell • 5 years ago • 23 commentsBy: Brian Fung and Donie O'Sullivan (CNN)
Twitter has suspended MTG for her covid lies.
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(CNN Business)Twitter(TWTR) has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week following another violation of the platform's rules, the company said Tuesday.
Greene tweeted on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration "should not approve the covid vaccines." She also claimed the vaccines were "failing" and that they were ineffective at reducing the virus's spread. In response, Twitter labeled the tweet as misleading and prevented Greene from tweeting for one week. 
Marjorie Taylor Greene congratulates crowd for low vaccination rate01:59 The tweet, a company spokesperson said, "was labeled in line with our COVID-19 misleading information policy. The account will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules." Tuesday's suspension marks at least the third and toughest penalty Twitter has imposed on Greene for sharing misinformation. In January, Greene was suspended for 12 hours from Twitter for sharing conspiracy theories about the Georgia Senate runoff elections, a move that the company said violated its civic integrity policy. In July, Twitter suspended Greene again for 12 hours for sharing misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines. (Greene was also temporarily suspended in March but was soon reinstated after Twitter said its automated systems had acted in error.)
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Ol' Hatchet Face is still trying to cause trouble for the vaccinations . A strait jacket may be in order.
More should get the boot on more platforms for spewing lies.
Then watch how quickly some will scream they're being censored.
Indeed. They simply can't accept that private media companies can decide on their own CoC when people are using their bullhorns/media platforms.
The fact is that these folk lying and spreading misinformation and making false and sometimes dangerous claims is like screaming fire in a crowded theatre when there is simply no evidence of any fire. One can argue that most rational people won't believe the wild conspiracy theories these nuts try and spread, but the evidence shows there are still many gullible morons who actually do believe that the theatre is on fire. They believe the lies about vaccines being spread by clueless conspiracy theorists and that is leading to actual physical harm to the populace, people are effectively being trampled in their rush to the exits because some nut job is falsely screaming fire.
The media companies could actually be held responsible if they didn't attempt to mitigate some of that damage by denying the bullhorn to those habitually making such false claims like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other right wing nut jobs.
What happened to all those alternative sites that supposedly do not "censor" anything? I don't hear anything about them. Those who complain about "big tech" seem to be staying on big tech related sites. I guess they do not put their money where their mouth is.
Anyone who buys into conspiracy theories or related talk (i.e. "the election was stolen" or "Trump won") is clearly not rational. But rather quite delusional.
It seems they're ignoring what Covid is doing.
Good! Now, if only those who willfully spread lies and misinformation were also held responsible too.
Large Marge got a time-out did she? I think Twitter should make her stand in the corner, too
One week? bfd.
How stupid is the woman?
3 words.
Jewish Satellite Lasers
LOL, but that may be topped by this.
Is there enough duct tape in the world to tape her mouth shut?
There are alternatives that might do the job.
I hear that stuff works so well that not even industrial strength acetone will remove it
I say we re-label a bottle as "Trump Chapstick", and send it to her.
Also...
As they come.
Very!
www.mediaite.com /politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-releases-unhinged-rant-twitter-only-cares-about-the-democrat-communist-agenda-for-america/
Marjorie Taylor Greene Releases Unhinged Rant: 'Twitter Only Cares About the Democrat Communist Agenda'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded to the one-week suspension she has received from Twitter after she publicly derided the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccinations and asked for the FDA to not approve them until more research is done.
News broke on Tuesday that the freshman Republican Congresswoman — and hardcore supporter of former President Donald Trump — was suspended from Twitter for a week after falsely claiming that Covid vaccines are “failing.” She also claimed they “do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks.”
As you can see in the tweet above, Twitter offered a disclaimer saying that the Tweet may be misleading. In fact, it is not clear what scientific study she is citing when she says that the vaccines “do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks.”
Over the past month, certain parts of the nation have seen a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections due to the new delta variant that public health experts say is far more viral in nature and potentially more deadly. In fact, a current map of the highest infection rates coincides with many southern states that have the lowest rates of vaccination. This is why CDC Director Rochelle Walensky — and many other elected officials and media personalities — have correctly assessed that this is currently a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
There are reports of breakthrough cases of Covid-19 among the vaccinated, however, the symptoms of those instances are almost always far lesser than those of the unvaccinated. The CDC recently reported that 99.99% of current Covid-19 hospitalizations are patients who have refused vaccinations. Which is, to a layperson, clear evidence that the vaccine is effective.
That data set with either not available to Rep. Taylor Greene or she willfully ignored it, in doubling down in her unhinged and largely illogical rant released via a statement from her Congressional office.
“I’ve talked with numerous people who have scary side effects like Myocarditis, blood clots and miscarriages,” she states, adding “And nearly 7,000 deaths are reported in VAERS on the CDC website.” What she doesn’t mention is that 7,000 cases are reported to the CDC but have not yet been confirmed. But even if they are all confirmed, that represents .004 percent of the over 160 million Americans who have received a shot. Or in other words, one individual of 25,000.
Greene went on to attack Dr. Fauci who, she claims “only harshly criticize(s) bikers at Sturgis riding in open air with no masks, but is silent on Obama’s “sophisticated” birthday party super spreader event for Hollywood and Democrat elites?” Of course, former President Barack Obama abided by CDC guidelines in hosting his party, while Sturgis attendees , largely have not.
And finally, she hit the cancel culture note so popular within her base of supporters. “But Twitter won’t allow any real discussion of the truth from an elected Congresswoman because Twitter only cares about the Democrat Communist agenda for America,” she concluded.
Greene oddly appears to be a fierce opponent to Covid-19 mitigation evidenced by her recent praising of Alabamian supporters that their state had the lowest vaccination rate in the country, which was received with cheers. Alabama also currently ranks 10th in the nation with the highest infection rate, as of August 9th.
Read Rep. Taylor Greene’s full statement below:
As Bugs Bunny would say "What a maroon".
This is a good example of why MTG is a world class idiot. For the sake of discussion lets stipulate that some covid positive illegal immigrants have entered the US. It would still be wise , prudent and correct to "force" schoolchildren to mask up. The mask is what will protect them from the virus, not conservatives handwringing about "illegal immigrants" .
Her voters probably can't even figure out how to turn on a computer. They are like the scene in Zoolander where Derek and Hansel resemble the apes when confronting the monolith in 2001.
I don't generally love when these platforms censor people, but you can't hardly blame Twitter on this one.
She sticks her foot in her mouth so often that she has athlete's tongue.