Twitter suspends the account of American elected Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of spreading false information on Covid-19

On Saturday, this fervent supporter of Donald Trump had mentioned, without any factual element, “an extremely high number of deaths due to the vaccine against the Covid”.

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Twitter announced on Sunday January 2 that it had permanently suspended one of the accounts of Republican elected official Marjorie Taylor Greene, accused of violating the rules of the social network in terms of information on the pandemic.

The social network closed his personal account, @mtgreenee, on which this fervent supporter of Donald Trump, known for his excesses, notably relayed numerous false information about the anti-Covid vaccine.

The latter, who also reproduced the allegations of electoral fraud brandished without proof by the former president, however keeps control of her account of elected representative in the House of Representatives @RepMTG, which she used less so far.

The social network did not specify which messages had caused a problem but referred in a statement to its “penalty system” gradual, which imposes several violations before suspending an account.

The controversial elected official had already seen her account blocked for a week in August because she had tweeted that vaccines “do not work”. On Saturday, she had mentioned again, without any factual element, “an extremely high number of deaths due to the vaccine against the Covid”.

Sunday, she strongly criticized the sanction: Twitter “is an enemy of America and cannot face the truth”, she wrote in a statement. “It’s okay, I’m going to show America that we don’t need them.”


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