Twitter disclosed Sunday that it had permanently blocked Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account for consistently violating the social media platform's disinformation rules on COVID-19.
Twitter has a "five-strike" policy before permanently suspending an account. Users who breach Twitter's COVID misinformation rule four times face a one-week ban. Five or more violations of the COVID policy may result in a lifetime ban.
With regards to the suspension, Twitter representative Katie Rosborough stated that the social media network has made clear that, based on their strike system for this policy, "we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated policy violations."
Greene most regularly tweeted from the account @mtgreenee, which accumulated over 465,000 followers.
The Georgia politician retains access to the use of her official congressional Twitter account, @RepMTG, which has over 386,000 followers.
Greene has a lengthy history of endorsing erroneous conspiracy theories, and the legislator has been a recurrent commenter on incorrect claims - regarding the election, the Capitol riots, and other topics - since she took her seat in November 2020.
Greene has already faced backlash for remarks about the pandemic. She apologized in June after comparing the COVID mask restrictions and immunizations to the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of 6 million Jews.
She had previously been involved with the QAnon conspiracy theory and has been a loud supporter of former President Donald Trump's baseless assertions that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
Jim Banks and Barry Moore, the two other House Republicans, have received temporary Twitter suspensions.
Greene's suspension comes almost a year after the site barred former President Donald Trump during the violent January 6 uprising.
"Twitter is America's enemy, and it can't take the truth," Greene said in a Telegram statement.
"Communist Democrats can't block the truth," she continued, adding that social media platforms "can't stop the truth from spreading far and wide."
According to the New York Times, Greene was banned after tweeting on January 1 about "very high rates of COVID vaccination deaths," including a deceptive chart based on information from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, a government database of unverified raw data.
The US Department of Health and VAERS are encouraging Americans to report adverse events related to COVID inoculation.
While many adverse effects have been documented, including fatalities, only a few have been attributed to the immunizations.
In the United States, all COVID vaccines have been scientifically confirmed to be exceptionally safe and effective.
