Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account – The Guardian

The personal Twitter account of the Georgia Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been permanently suspended, for violating policies on misinformation about Covid-19.Action against Greene on Sunday came under the “strike” system Twitter launched last March, which uses artificial intelligence to identify posts about the coronavirus misleading enough to cause harm.Two or three strikes earn a 12-hour account lock, four strikes prompt a weeklong suspension and five or more can get an account permanently removed.Twitter had previously suspended Greene’s personal account for periods ranging from 12 hours to a week.Greene was issued a “fourth strike” this summer, for saying vaccines were failing.“We’ve been clear that … we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy,” a Twitter spokeswoman said on Sunday.The congresswoman’s official account remains active.The Republican is a determined controversialist and political extremist who courts controversy and confrontation.She has regularly been fined for refusing to follow Covid guidelines in Congress, including those regarding mask-wearing on the House floor.In a statement on Sunday, Greene called Twitter “an enemy to America” and said it could not “handle the truth”.She also accused Twitter of seeking “a communist revolution” and said: “Social media platforms can’t stop the truth from being spread…
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