Twitter permanently bans Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account
It's not clear what immediately precipitated the ban. Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough said only that the company had"been clear" it would issue permanent suspensions for"repeated violations" of its COVID-19 misinformation policy.
Greene had faced an escalating series of bans over her inaccurate claims. She falsely claimed in July that COVID-19 wasn't dangerous unless you were over 65 or obese, and in August incorrectly maintained vaccines were"failing" against the new coronavirus' Delta variant. The posts respectively led to 12-hour and one-week suspensions.
The crackdown comes just under a year after Twitter permanently banned former President Trump, and reflects the social media giant's less forgiving attitude toward politicians in the past year — it's willing to ban officials for violations rather than
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