The personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been permanently suspended by the social media platform for violating its misinformation policies.
Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account was suspended from the social media site.
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In a statement to Forbes, the company said it had permanently suspended the personal account of Greene for violating its misinformation policies.
According to the platform, she received her fifth strike and was permanently suspended.
The congresswoman promoted a conspiracy that the federal government is ignoring high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths, based on a database of reported vaccine side effects, according to a screenshot seen.
The VAERS database, which is used by vaccine skeptics to question vaccine safety, is unreliable as it is based on incomplete, inaccurate or unrelated public reports, according to experts.
There have been previous strikes for posts that claimed that Covid-19 is only dangerous to the obese or elderly.
The Congressional account will remain active as it has not violated the platform's rules.
In a rebuttal on messaging platform Telegram, Greene decried an apparent double standard used to assess her content and that of other politicians and figures on the platform, and said that the social media platform, which she said is an enemy to America, can't handle the truth.
The key background.
Throughout the Pandemic, social media platforms have faced calls to do more to stem the tide of misinformation circulating online. Many accused the platforms of not being transparent enough about the scale of the problem, as they were known to remove posts and ban users who shared misinformation. In March, the company added warning labels to posts containing misinformation and explained some of its policies.
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