Twitter locks Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her account, Again
Twitter locked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her Twitter account temporarily on Friday morning, her office said in a statement.
Greene was previously locked out of Twitter in wake of the January 6 Capitol insurrection after she baselessly claimed the November 3 Georgia election was “stolen.”
The controversial congresswoman’s office confirmed that Twitter her personal account early on Friday morning for 12 hours without any details of what rules she “allegedly” violated.
“This is yet another attempt by the Silicon Valley Cartel to silence voices that speak out against their far-left woke orthodoxy,” her office said in a statement.
The last time that Greene’s account was locked, she was unable to tweet but remained able to send direct messages and view her feed. A Twitter spokesperson said at the time that she was temporarily locked out for violating Twitter’s policies surrounding election misinformation.
The move Friday by Twitter comes after Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) tweeted Friday that he has introduced a measure to kick Greene out of Congress over the Georgia Republican’s previous calls for violence against Democrats.
“I believe some of my @HouseGOP colleagues and one in particular wish harm upon this legislative body. I won’t watch @RepMTG threaten our democracy and do nothing,” Gomez had tweeted.
A two-thirds vote would be needed to expel Greene, making it all but certain that Gomez’s effort will fail.
The House removed Greene from committee assignments in early February after her racist and anti-Semitic comments and social media posts came into the spotlight.
She had previously aligned herself with the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory and repeatedly touted former President Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims.
