A screenshot of a controversial tweet about the pandemic's impact on Republicans was shared widely, drawing the attention of Newsweek's Misinformation Watch.
remarks about the pandemic, she did not tweet any such claim—as is clear from the"parody" label under the screengrabbed tweet.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene departs a closed-door GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol January 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. A tweet from a parody account, purporting to be from Greene, was misleadingly shared on social media.There is no evidence of this tweet being anywhere on her Twitter feed for the day in question, Monday, January 30. A number of Greene's tweets do reference COVID, in the context of declaring the pandemic's end.
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