One of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Verified Twitter Accounts Is Permanently Suspended From Twitter
A Twitter spokesperson said the company had “permanently suspended” the account “for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
Greene, a right-wing Republican who tweets most often from the handle @mtgreenee, has more than 465,000 followers. She still has access and can tweet from her official congressional account @RepMTG, which has more than 386,000 followers.
Greene’s ban comes nearly a year after the platform banned former President Donald Trump following the deadly January 6 uprising.
According to a person familiar with Twitter’s decision, the tweet that led to the permanent ban included a misleading chart intended to show Covid-19 vaccine-related deaths, which Greene claims. was omitted, according to a person familiar with Twitter’s decision.
Americans are encouraged to submit details of adverse events following a Covid-19 vaccination to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS . While many adverse events – including deaths – have been reported, very few have been causally related to the vaccine. All Covid-19 vaccines currently available in the United States have been scientifically proven to be extremely safe and highly effective.
The tweet was sent at 1:46 p.m. ET on New Year’s Day, according to a screenshot obtained by CNN.
Greene released a statement after the ban, part of which said: “Social media platforms cannot prevent the truth from spreading widely. Big Tech cannot prevent the truth. Communist Democratic Party I can’t stop the truth. I stand with the truth and the people. We will overcome!”
This story was updated with additional information on Sunday.
CNN’s Melanie Zanona contributed to this report.
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