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WASHINGTON: A newly elected Republican congresswoman known for promoting QAnon’s conspiracy theories accused Twitter of censorship on Sunday after her account was temporarily suspended for “multiple violations.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene was sentenced to 12-hour suspension after she tweeted allegations of alleged voter fraud in her home state of Georgia.
Twitter marked at least two tweets as “disputed” and prevented them from being shared or retweeted, saying they carried the “risk of violence.”
The legislator’s account was suspended due to “multiple violations of our civic integrity policy,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
Greene, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, has echoed his baseless claims of manipulation in the 2020 election.
She has also embraced QAnon conspiracy theories in the past and was endorsed by the president as a “future Republican star.”
QAnon’s followers believe that Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan-worshiping pedophiles. They have not offered any credible evidence in this regard.
Greene’s suspension is the latest in a series of social media bans and lockouts following the January 6 riots in the United States Capitol.
Twitter banned Trump two days after the incident and has since deleted more than 70,000 accounts with ties to QAnon.
Apple and Google have also banned downloads of Parler, a Twitter-like app popular with conservatives, and Amazon has taken the platform off its servers.
That has outraged many Republicans, who say the tech giants are infringing on their freedom of speech.
“The rights of Americans are being stripped and the people who elected to represent them are not listening to them,” Greene said in a statement after his suspension.
“With Big Tech silencing them, they literally cannot be heard. The censorship has to end. “
“If a conservative dares to express a political opinion that the Internet police consider unapproved, he is now subject to false accusations of ‘inciting violence’ simply for having a conservative view,” he added.
Last week, Trump became the first US president in history to be indicted twice when the House of Representatives voted to charge him with inciting the Jan.6 mob attack on Congress. – AFP
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