- Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia known for her promotion of the unsupported conspiracy theory QAnon, was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours, her office said in a statement.
- Twitter confirmed to Insider that Greene was temporarily “blocked” on the account, citing violations of its civic integrity policy.
- On Saturday, Greene tweeted a message that said, in part, Trump supporters should “mobilize and make their voices heard in opposition to these attacks on our freedoms”.
- Social media platforms, including Twitter, cracked down on accounts that spread misinformation and encourage violence following a deadly uprising by pro-Trump rioters on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, angering conservatives.
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Georgia Republican MP Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours, her office said in a press release sunday.
“A few days after the Silicon Valley Cartel launched an attack on several fronts to cool freedom of expression in America, deploring President Donald Trump and purging an unknown number of conservatives, Twitter decided to suspend my personal account without explanation,” Greene said in the statement.
A Twitter spokesman confirmed to Insider that Greene’s account was “blocked for multiple breaches” from his civic integrity policy. The company did not immediately respond to which tweets violated the policy.
Before his temporary suspension, Greene tweeted several times on Sunday, first about banning abortion, and in another series of tweets, about Republicans losing the majority in the US Senate.
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Greene most recently tweeted just after 11:45 am in Washington, DC. In that post, she criticized Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. Trump and his allies attacked Georgia’s election officials, namely Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp, both Republicans, for refusing to help him nullify Biden’s victory in the state.
On Saturday, Greene tweeted, and shortly afterwards deleted, as filed by ProPublica, a message calling for the mobilization of “all Americans”, especially Trump supporters.
“I encourage all Americans, not just the 75 million people who voted for President Trump, to mobilize and make their voices heard in opposition to these attacks on our freedoms,” she wrote on Saturday in a tweet that was deleted about two hours after submitting this, according to ProPublica.
Greene is one of the members of the House Republican Party who raised an objection to certification of the Electoral College vote that confirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump.
His suspension follows other high-level suspensions on the platform, including the permanent suspension of President Donald Trump, following the violent and deadly US Capitol insurrection on January 6.
In the days following the riot that left at least five people dead, Twitter and other social media platforms took major steps to reduce misinformation and contain the organization of violence before Biden’s inauguration this week.
The suspension came at a time when the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned of armed protests in the buildings of state capitals in the United States and the threat of further unrest in Washington, DC, before Inauguration Day.
Greene is known for defending views aligned with QAnon, the far-right unfounded conspiracy theory that gained prominence among some Republicans, although Greene was the first person elected to Congress to publicly support the theory. In an interview with Fox News in August, Greene said he decided to “choose another path” after he encountered “misinformation” within the QAnon community, as Rachel E. Greenspan of Insider previously noted.
In a hard-hitting opinion article published on The Atlantic Sunday, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican, criticized Greene and his party members for pleasing those who believe the absurd theory, centered on the belief that Trump is fighting against a “state” profound “conspiracy of satanic pedophiles.
“Newly elected MP Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo by Cocoa Puffs,” wrote Sasse in The Atlantic.