A Twitter spokesperson mentioned the corporate “completely suspended” the account “for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation coverage.”
Greene, a right-wing Republican, most incessantly tweeted from the deal with @mtgreenee, which had greater than 465,000 followers. She nonetheless has entry to and might tweet from her official congressional account @RepMTG, which has greater than 386,000 followers.
Twitter had beforehand briefly restricted Greene’s account for sharing misinformation concerning the 2020 presidential election and Covid-19.
Greene’s ban comes nearly a 12 months after the platform banned former President Donald Trump within the wake of the lethal January 6 rebel.
The tweet that prompted the everlasting ban included a deceptive graph purporting to point out deaths associated to Covid-19 vaccines, which Greene claimed have been ignored, in keeping with an individual conversant in Twitter’s resolution.
People are inspired to submit particulars on hostile occasions following Covid-19 vaccination to the US Division of Well being and Human Providers’ Vaccine Opposed Occasion Reporting System, or VAERS. Whereas many hostile occasions — together with deaths — have been reported, only a few have been causally linked to the vaccines. All Covid-19 vaccines accessible in the US have been scientifically confirmed to be extraordinarily protected and extremely efficient.
The tweet was despatched at 1:46 p.m. ET on New 12 months’s Day, in keeping with a screenshot obtained by CNN.
Greene launched a press release after the ban, a part of which mentioned: “Social media platforms cannot cease the reality from being unfold far and extensive. Massive Tech cannot cease the reality. Communist Democrats cannot cease the reality. I stand with the reality and the folks. We’ll overcome!”
This story has been up to date with extra info Sunday.
