Twitter Reverses Ban on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Personal Account
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Twitter restored Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account on Monday after it was suspended in January for allegedly circulating misinformation about Covid-19 restrictions and vaccines.
The congresswoman notified her followers from her professional account, which was not banned, that her personal account was active again.
“I’m the only Member of Congress the unelected big tech oligarchs permanently banned. On January 2, 2022, they violated my freedom of speech and ability to campaign & fundraise crying ‘covid misinformation,'” she tweeted.
“My account is back. Go follow @mtgreenee for MTG unfiltered ;),” she said.
Last January, the company permanently banned Greene’s account, claiming that it repeatedly violated its Covid-19 misinformation policy. She was previously temporarily suspended by Twitter several times on the same grounds.
In July, her account was suspended for 12 hours over her tweets that argued that Covid-19 was “not dangerous” for people who are under the age of 65 or not obese. In August, her account was locked for a week after she tweeted that the Covid-19 vaccines “are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks.”
After the fifth violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy, the account is subject to permanent suspension. A member of the House Freedom Caucus, Greene represents the MAGA wing of the GOP. She has embraced the unsubstantiated allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump in addition to other conspiracy theories. In the midterms, Greene won re-election in her Georgia congressional district by over 30 percent against her Democratic challenger.
Since officially acquiring Twitter, new CEO Elon Musk has unlocked the accounts of multiple right-wing personalities and outlets that were deplatformed by the old management for various speech infractions. Former president Trump, the Babylon Bee, and Jordan Peterson were among those that were invited back onto the site.
Musk made the Trump decision after a public poll he posted on Twitter generated majority support to reinstate his account. Of the 134 million people who responded to the poll, according to Musk, 51.8 percent of users voted to lift Trump’s ban and 48.2 percent voted maintain it. Two days after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in 2021, Twitter, which served as the former president’s direct conduit to his fan base, kicked him off the site indefinitely, citing the “risk of further incitement of violence.”
