Marjorie Taylor Greene Twitter Suspended After Trans 'Vengeance' Warning
By: Thomas Kika (Newsweek)
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Twitter Suspended After Trans 'Vengeance' Warning
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that her congressional Twitter account has been suspended after sharing unfounded information about a "Trans Day of Vengeance" in the wake of the Nashville school shooting.
Shooter Audrey Hale was gunned down by Nashville police on Monday after entering the Covenant Presbyterian School and opening fire with several firearms. Hale ultimately killed at least six people, including three young students and three adult faculty members.
Police have yet to officially disclose a probable motive for Hale's actions. They have confirmed that the shooter identified as transgender, though it remains unclear in which ways and to what degree this was the case. Nevertheless, several prominent conservative figures, like Greene have attempted to link Hale's actions to being transgender, insinuating with little evidence that gender transition drugs or surgeries were to blame in some manner.
Greene in particular tweeted about a supposed event called the "Trans Day of Vengeance," linking it to the Nashville shooting and alleging a broader threat of "trans-terrorism. Later, Greene claimed on her personal account that her congressional account had been suspended as a result of those tweets, a decision she strongly opposed. The original tweet and subsequent ones have been deleted from her congressional Twitter account, but Newsweek was able to view some of their content before they were taken down.
"After 3000 RTs of this tweet, my account was suspended AGAIN. Why is Twitter whitewashing the 'Trans Day of Vengeance', [Elon Musk]?" Greene tweeted. "A day after a mass murder of children by a trans shooter? The people need to know about the threat they face from Antifa & trans-terrorism!!!"
Above, a photo of congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene with an inset image of a Twitter logo on a cellphone. Greene claimed on Tuesday that her congressional Twitter account had been suspended after posting about a supposed "Trans Day of Vengeance."Chesnot; John Bazemore - Pool/Getty Images
In her own post on the matter, Ella G. Irwin, Vice President of Trust and Safety at Twitter, said that the platform automatically swept for tweets containing a poster for the "Trans Day of Vengeance" and took them down, no matter who was sharing it or why.
"We had to automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets /retweets of this poster," Irwin posted Tuesday. "We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. 'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok."
Later, responding to a claim from Irwin that accounts were not receiving strikes for sharing the poster, Greene shared a screenshot of an explanation she purportedly received for her account being suspended.
"This is a lie," she tweeted from her personal account.
This is a lie.
My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called "Trans Day of Vengeance."
The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter.
Restore my account immediately. @elonmusk@ellagirwin… https://t.co/p9XZLtuuDFpic.twitter.com/svViCYUyhm
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) March 28, 2023
Reports about the "Trans Day of Vengeance" have largely stemmed from conservative news outlets and been sourced from posts by the Trans Radical Activists Network (TRAN). The group purportedly planned to hold the day from March 31-April 1, as a "battle cry to declare to the world that we the transgender/non-binary communities will neither be silenced nor eradicated." Reports also suggested that the group might have been fundraising for firearm training.
Newsweek could not independently verify these reports about TRAN, though the group is real and currently operates a Twitter account that is locked from public viewing. Given that the account has only 404 followers and has been active for less than a year, it is unclear how much widespread impact its messaging could have had. Despite its calls for a "Day of Vengeance" being highlighted by conservative figures in the wake of the Covenant School shooting, there is currently no evidence to suggest that Hale's actions were motivated by the group.
Twitter could not be reached for comment, as it has ceased responding to press office inquiries since its takeover by Elon Musk. Newsweek reached out to the National Center for Transgender Equality via email for comment.
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Butt, she is a "dick".
When you want news or the truth don't go to leftists.
Hale wasn't "gunned down" by Nashville police. They ended an immediate threat to life. "Gunned down" suggests that police didn't give her a chance to surrender; or their actions were somehow unlawful.
Really? Only conservative sources are reporting about them? Author not smart enough to use Google? Of course the author would have had to wade through several BS articles, like their own, about Greene's twitter account being suspended first.
Just another day in the left's selective outrage de jour.
I'm "outraged" by every shooting ("de jour").
"Hale wasn't "gunned down" by Nashville police."
Really? Hale is fucking dead.
"Really? Only conservative sources are reporting about them? Author not smart enough to use Google?"
Okay. Please list the "liberal" sources that reported about any connection between "Tran" or a "Day of Vengeance" and Hale.
I know you are using this thread to attack NewsWeek ("liberal media").
Please make some suggestions about what should be done to avoid the "attack of the Antifa & trans-terrorists." If you bothered to read the seed, you can see that MTG ranted about that threat butt she posed no solutions. She was just bitching about Twitter suspending her account. That flaming liberal, Elon Musk, censored her comment and suspended her.
The cons on NT never have solutions. They only come to our articles so they can bitch, whine, and troll
The seed is about Marjorie Taylor Greene bitching about her account being suspended on Twitter so a winger uses this thread to whine about the "liberal media".
I'm glad that rwnj's are finally accepting their biblical roles as witless victims...
Suggestions!! we don't need any damn suggestions that would cause some to have to think which could cause their heads to explode.
A perfect example is in the comments column.