By Allan Smith for NBC News
Twitter suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, for 12 hours on Sunday, alleging that she had
repeatedly
conflicted with
the company's
disinformation policy
.
"The referenced account has been temporarily blocked for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy," said a Twitter spokesperson.
Greene's most recent posts included one in which he
made false claims about widespread electoral fraud in Georgia,
both in the November elections and the second round for the Senate on January 5, and another series of tweets in which he repeated more. discredited claims and called Georgia election officials "idiots."
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Twitter restricted those posts from being promoted and placed them with warning labels.
Your account remains active, but you cannot publish at the moment
.
Following the assault on the Capitol earlier this month, Twitter has stepped up its campaign against misleading and false information on its platform.
Since the violent events, Twitter has suspended tens of thousands of accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory, in addition to indefinitely banning President Donald Trump.
The company's civic integrity policy states that
"false or misleading information will be tagged or removed that is intended to undermine confidence in an election or other civic process
.
"
“This includes but is not limited to: dubious claims that could undermine confidence in the process itself, such as unverified information on voter fraud, ballot tampering, vote counting or certification of election results;
as well as misleading claims about the outcome of a civic process that calls for or could lead to interference with the implementation of the results of the process, ”says company policy.
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Greene, a freshman lawmaker and supporter of Trump's efforts to overturn the election,
has previously expressed sympathy for QAnon
, though she has since tried to distance herself.
Greene, who has already vowed to try to impeach President-elect Joe Biden on his first day in office, has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans since the riots.
"She's crazy about Cocoa Puffs," Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, wrote in an opinion piece, criticizing House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, for not repudiating her campaign.