Twitter Suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., yells at journalists after setting off the metal detector outside the doors to the House of Representatives Chamber on Jan. 12. Twitter suspended the newly elected lawmaker’s account temporarily on Sunday.





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Greene’s account is still viewable to the public. The newly elected representative’s most recent messages on the platform repeat false claims that elections that resulted in Trump’s defeat and key Republican losses in the Senate were flawed. Key election officials in Georgia, she said, had been «begged by Republicans to fix our elections.

Twitter affixed a warning notice to Greene’s message about the recent national election stating, «This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted or liked to a risk of violence. Those limits on engagement were introduced as part of the social media company’s new approach to messages that are deemed to violate its civic integrity policy.

On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts that were used to share content about QAnon.