Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter ban is no victory for her
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter ban is no victory for her
Tweeting anti-vaccine misinformation isn't worth de-platforming for most of the GOP.
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., will no longer be able to use her personal Twitter feed to add to the garbage pile of nonsense that permeates the internet. The first-term member of Congress got that account “permanently suspended” Sunday, Twitter said in a statement, for “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
Greene was a conspiracy theorist par excellence even ahead of her successful run for office, and she was bound to eventually lose access to her account. The real question is whether her fellow Republicans will view Twitter yanking that account as a cautionary tale — or if they’ll view it as a road map to martyrdom.
Twitter had already suspended Greene multiple times for tweeting the kinds of fraudulent claims that have become ambrosia for the Republican Party’s most devoted. “In January last year, Greene was suspended for making false claims about widespread voter fraud in Georgia,” NBC News reported. “She was also suspended in July and August for violating the Covid-19 policy with tweets about vaccines.”
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Tweeting anti-vaccine misinformation isn't worth de-platforming for most of the GOP.
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., will no longer be able to use her personal Twitter feed to add to the garbage pile of nonsense that permeates the internet. The first-term member of Congress got that account “permanently suspended” Sunday, Twitter said in a statement, for “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
Greene was a conspiracy theorist par excellence even ahead of her successful run for office, and she was bound to eventually lose access to her account. The real question is whether her fellow Republicans will view Twitter yanking that account as a cautionary tale — or if they’ll view it as a road map to martyrdom.
Twitter had already suspended Greene multiple times for tweeting the kinds of fraudulent claims that have become ambrosia for the Republican Party’s most devoted. “In January last year, Greene was suspended for making false claims about widespread voter fraud in Georgia,” NBC News reported. “She was also suspended in July and August for violating the Covid-19 policy with tweets about vaccines.”
READ MORE: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/marjorie-tay...
