Twitter temporarily suspends account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Twitter temporarily suspends account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Twitter temporarily suspends account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Twitter announced Sunday it had suspended the account of freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 hours. The Georgia Republican’s last post to the site was a video in which she continued to allege debunked and unfounded conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud in Georgia. Twitter flagged the post with a warning and blocked users from liking or commenting on the post.In another post earlier in the day, Greene attacked Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voter system implementation manager, spreading a false claim about alleged corruption from Dominion voting machines. "Morons like you are responsible for losing GA’s 2 Republican Senate seats," Greene said. The post was again flagged by Twitter for spreading misinformationGreene is a firebrand conspiracy theorist who has claimed the United States is experiencing an "Islamic invasion into our government offices," that the Pentagon was not actually attacked on 9/11, that Black people are "slaves to the Democratic Party" and that billionaire Jewish philanthropist George Soros is a Nazi.And she has expressed support for the baseless and wide-ranging QAnon conspiracy theory. "Q is a patriot. We know that for sure," Greene has said. Twitter’s temporary suspension of Greene comes after it suspended 70,000 Twitter accounts connected to the QAnon believers, as well as prominent rightwing pundits and President Donald Trump. CNN host Jake Tapper was not optimistic that Twitter's brief suspension would change Greene's ways. "I’m sure the woman who claimed a plane never really flew into the Pentagon on 9/11, an anti-Muslim bigot who has been nonetheless welcomed by @GOPLeader and @SteveScalise into the GOP caucus, will totally be chastised by this 12 hour suspension, examining her life choices," Tapper tweeted with sarcasm.