Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor has been issued a permanent suspension from Twitter over her "repeated violations" of the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy, the company announced Sunday.
"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@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," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.
The ban only applies to Greene's personal account. As of Sunday afternoon, her congressional Twitter account is still active.
In a statement published to Telegram, Greene claimed that the social media giant "can't handle the truth."
"Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth," she said. "That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies."
Greene has been suspended from Twitter on a number of different occasions for violating the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy.
In July, she was suspended from Twitter for 12 hours over two tweets claiming that the coronavirus was not dangerous for people under 65 years of age.
And in August, Greene received a week-long suspension for alleging that the vaccines did not aid in mitigating the spread of COVID. She said that "these vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks."
Twitter's COVID-19 misleading information policy states that tweets must advance claims as facts, be demonstrably false or misleading based on widely available information and have a likelihood of causing...
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