Twitter said on Tuesday that it had suspended the account of controversial U.S. Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green, a staunch supporter of former Republican President Donald Trump, due to a “misleading” tweet about the coronavirus vaccine. A week.
The tweet sent on Monday stated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should not finally approve anti-coronavirus vaccines. Green called these vaccines “failed” and did not contain the spread of the virus.
Twitter marked the message as “misleading” and advised users to consult information about vaccines and wearing masks provided by US health authorities.
A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to Agence France-Presse: “The label of the tweet you quoted complies with our Covid-19 misleading information policy.”
The statement added:
Due to repeated violations of Twitter rules, the account will be in read-only mode for a week.
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The platform’s rules on Covid misinformation stipulate that the 7-day suspension is the fourth violation of the site’s terms of use.
If Georgia’s first female congresswoman violates the rules again, she may face a permanent injunction.
Green accused Twitter of suspending her because she “tells the truth and posted what so many people have said on Twitter.”
This congressman has been a staunch defender of Trump and his unsubstantiated claims that the Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election.
In February, she apologized for her past support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, but was deprived of her two committee tasks.
Then in May, she repeatedly equated wearing a mask with the Nazis in Germany forcing Jews to wear yellow stars during the war, which sparked controversy.
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