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TWITTER SUSPENDS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE OVER 'MISLEADING' COVID POSTS

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20 July 2021

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a vocal critic of vaccines and the use of masks

Twitter has suspended Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene for posting
"misleading" information about coronavirus.

The social media giant said her account would be in "read-only mode" for 12
hours.

Ms Greene, a Republican congresswoman, has been an outspoken critic of vaccines
and the use of masks.

Last month she apologised for likening coronavirus mask rules to the treatment
of Jews in Nazi Germany.

In two tweets on Monday, she argued that vaccines should not be required, and
that Covid was not dangerous for people aged under 65 who are not obese.

Both posts are still on display, but have been tagged by Twitter as
"misleading".



Ms Greene was suspended from Twitter in April, but the company later rescinded
the ban, saying it was a mistake caused by its automated moderation system.

In response to her latest suspension, Ms Greene said Silicon Valley firms were
attacking free speech with support from the White House.

"These Big Tech companies are doing the bidding of the Biden regime to restrict
our voices and prevent the spread of any message that isn't state-approved," she
said in a statement to the New York Times.

Last week, Democratic President Joe Biden urged social media firms to take more
action against the spread of false information about coronavirus and vaccines on
their platforms.

"They're killing people," Mr Biden told reporters. "The only pandemic we have is
among the unvaccinated."

US health officials have warned the country's current spike in Covid-19 deaths
and infections is exclusively hitting unvaccinated communities.



Twitter has repeatedly banned users for sharing false information, and in March
it introduced a new policy with penalties for users.

Under the new rules, 12-hour suspensions are given for second and third
violations of its policy. A fourth breach results in a week-long ban, and a
fifth leads to a full ban.

In January, Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump for posts that
it said incited violence after the storming of the US Capitol by hundreds of his
supporters.

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