Twitter bans Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene over Covid posts

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Twitter has banned the personal account of far-right US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform’s Covid-19 misinformation policy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move is the latest strike against the firebrand whose embrace of conspiracy theories has been called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a cancer” for the Republican Party and led the House to boot her from committees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Georgia Republican’s account was permanently suspended under the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;strike” system Twitter launched in March&comma; which uses artificial intelligence to identify posts about the coronavirus that are misleading enough to cause harm to people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two or three strikes earn a 12-hour account lock&period; Four strikes prompt a week-long suspension&period; Five or more strikes can get someone permanently removed from Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement on the messaging app Telegram&comma; Ms Greene criticised Twitter’s move as un-American&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She wrote that her account was suspended after tweeting statistics from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System&comma; a government database that includes unverified raw data&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth&comma;” Ms Greene said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s fine&comma; I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twitter had previously suspended her personal account for periods ranging from 12 hours to a full week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The ban applies to Ms Greene’s personal account&comma; &commat;mtgreenee but does not affect her official Twitter account&comma; &commat;RepMTG&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The first-term congresswoman has repeatedly stirred controversy over inflammatory commentary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On social media&comma; she has voiced support for racist views&comma; unfounded QAnon pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories such as the lie that the 2020 election was stolen and calls for violence against Democratic politicians&comma; including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last February&comma; Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called her embrace of conspiracy theories and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;loony lies” a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cancer for the Republican Party”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Democratic-led House that same month removed her from her two committee assignments&comma; the House Education and Labour Committee as well as the House Budget Committee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In July&comma; Twitter suspended Ms Greene for a week after President Joe Biden urged tech companies to take stronger action against bogus vaccine claims that are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;killing people”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twitter has defended its efforts to keep dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 off its site&comma; 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