Twitter announced Sunday that it had permanently suspended one of the accounts of Republican elected official Marjorie Taylor Greene, accused of violating the social network's rules on information on the pandemic.
This is his personal account, @mtgreenee, on which this fervent supporter of Donald Trump, known for his excesses, has notably relayed numerous false information about the anti-Covid vaccine.
However, she keeps control of her elected House of Representatives account @RepMTG, which she used less until now.
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The controversial elected had already seen her account blocked for a week in August because she had tweeted that the vaccines "
do not work
".
Saturday, she had again mentioned, without any factual element, "
an extremely high number of deaths due to the vaccine against the Covid
".
This time, the social network did not specify which messages had been problematic but referred in a statement sent to AFP to its
gradual "
penalty system
", which imposes several violations before suspending an account.
On Sunday, Marjorie Taylor Greene sharply criticized the sanction: Twitter "
is an enemy of America and cannot face the truth
," she wrote in a statement.
"
It's okay, I'm going to show America that we don't need them.
"
The social network also banned Donald Trump after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, by his supporters whom he had heated white by evoking a "
stolen election
".