Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Posting Coronavirus Misinformation
Source: New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO Twitter said on Monday that it was suspending Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from its service for 12 hours after she posted messages that violated its policy against sharing misleading information about the coronavirus.
Ms. Greene, a Republican of Georgia, has been an outspoken opponent of vaccines and masks as tools to curb the pandemic. In tweets on Sunday and Monday, she argued that Covid-19 was not dangerous for people under the age of 65 who are not obese, and said vaccines should not be required.
But cases of the coronavirus are on the rise, and the highly contagious Delta variant accounts for more than half of new infections in the United States, federal health officials said this month. In Ms. Greenes home state, Georgia, new cases have increased 193 percent in the past two weeks.
Twitter said Ms. Greenes tweets were misinformation, and it barred her from the service until Tuesday. We took enforcement action on the account @mtgreenee for violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically the Covid-19 misleading information policy, a Twitter spokesman said. The company also added labels to Ms. Greenes posts about the vaccines, calling them misleading and pointing to information about the safety of the inoculations.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/technology/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter.html
Blue Owl
(50,361 posts)The two of them can fill the void together
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,225 posts)Link to tweet
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edbermac
(15,939 posts)Big deal. She should be Trumped.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)I mean, here we are, reading about it in The NY Times today, while she'll be trumpeting it far and wide tomorrow and using this Times article to illustrate her belief she's being "cancelled."
Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)Watch a movie, go to bed, get up, have breakfast, resume shitposting. Bada-bing-bada-boof.
AZ8theist
(5,461 posts)Unbelievable.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)crimycarny
(1,351 posts)All I can fathom is the GOP doesn't want to hand Biden a win by getting a lot of people vaccinated so they are putting their supporters' lives at risk. All for their own selfish gains (re-election) and while being vaccinated themselves!
How do these people sleep at night? I'm serious.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 20, 2021, 12:58 AM - Edit history (1)
in an effort to make Biden look as bad as Dumdum, something that is just not going to happen.
The disinformation campaign is akin to shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater. While I tend to be a free speech purist, I also think the plug needs to be pulled on services that push this disinformation campaign. It is killing people.
Free speech means you won't be put into prison for saying stupid stuff. It doesn't guarantee the right to a megaphone or captive audience.
ramen
(790 posts)The chaos is the goal.
bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)in my RW-leaning area. While many have wished and prayed for a race war to provide a reason for some winnowing of the wheat from the chaff, that has consistently failed to happen. Coronavirus is the next best thing - 600k dead, and disproportionately minorities. All one has to do is discourage vaccination and go about one's business without a mask, reality takes care of the rest.
Of course some people might question whether other people could be so heinous as to think that way, but it seems to be the case. From what I've heard. And I haven't heard any alternative explanations that make more sense.
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)I can think of a few Republicans who need to be muted.
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left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Wow !
That'll teach her !
JI7
(89,249 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Get a few extra hours sleep and it's over.
She lies and provokes people as much as TFG did. He gets a total ban, she gets 12 hours. Way to go, Twitter. That'll show her.
crickets
(25,976 posts)There's no way Greene will stop what she's doing. To people like her, being told to quiet down is usually an impetus to rachet things up another notch. Here's hoping this is just Twitter's warning shot and a heftier ban, perhaps even a permanent one, might come along in the future.
stage left
(2,962 posts)That should learn her. I was suspended for an entire week for telling the gospel truth about what should happen to Lindsey Graham: He should be ridden out of Washington on a rail.
IronLionZion
(45,441 posts)They should have a 3 strikes rule and then permanent ban or something like that
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)if her Twitter source is turned off. She will certainly learn her lesson given that punishment.
Cinnamonspice
(163 posts)Far right wingers be like "We're being cancelled out" and "It's the holocaust."
Bo Zarts
(25,396 posts)Kinda like 12 lashes with a wet noodle. Thatll teach her.
Catherine Vincent
(34,489 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)2nd will be much steeper, and third will most likely be permanent.
Don't worry, as someone who's moderated multiple forums, I can say that it's only a matter of time before she will step in it, and it will be sooner than later.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)"What is this 'science' you speak of?" "...and how does 'science' know vaccines are safe".
So confusing.
Bayard
(22,069 posts)fantase56
(444 posts)asking for a friend....
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)And it's taking place overnight, when nobody is even paying attention to tweets. She'll be back first thing tomorrow.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)It goes from 12 hours to a lot longer for the 2nd violation, then permanent ban. Its not 12 hours and then she can do it again.
Aussie105
(5,395 posts)12 hours is trivial, she will see Twitter as a toothless tiger, and do it again.
Then . . . perm ban! I'm hoping, and soon!
C Moon
(12,213 posts)riversedge
(70,214 posts)goodness, both WP and NYT have picked up the story.
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for spreading covid-19 misinformation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/20/marjorie-taylor-green-twitter-suspended-covid/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) walks out of the Otay Mesa Detention Center after touring the facility, located in San Diego, on Wednesday. (Denis Poroy/AP)
By
Bryan Pietsch
July 20, 2021|Updated today at 3:44 a.m. EDT
Twitter temporarily suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for violating its covid-19 misinformation policy after she falsely claimed that the coronavirus was not dangerous for some people.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed Monday evening that the company had taken enforcement action on Greenes personal account for violations of its policies.
The account was put on read-only mode for 12 hours, which according to Twitters rules happens if it seems like an otherwise healthy account is in the middle of an abusive episode. The 12-hour suspension is the shortest of Twitters read-only penalties, which its website says can range from 12 hours to seven days, depending on the nature of the violation. Greenes account had violated the misinformation policy multiple times, according to Twitter.
Greene tweeted Monday that the novel coronavirus was not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65. More than 600,000 people in the United States have died from covid-19.
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In another tweet, Greene falsely claimed that defeating obesity would protect people from covid-19 complications and death.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Click the three dot in the upper right, report, spam or misleading. Done.
Lots of junk thinking in those headlines, some of it from major news networks.
Turn on the juice, people. We must all do as much as we can.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)We're a pathetic country, with ZERO accountability for those with power.
And Matt Gaetz is going to jail any day now. Yeah....sure.
llashram
(6,265 posts)that'll leave a bruise...not These f****** are getting away with literal murder.