Twitter is not shying away from banning extra high-profile US politicians. As The New York Times reports, the social community has completely banned Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s private account after a fifth “strike” for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. Her official account remains to be lively as of this writing as a result of it hasn’t run afoul of Twitter’s guidelines.

It’s not sure what put up led to the everlasting ban. Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough mentioned solely that the corporate had “been clear” it could challenge everlasting suspensions for “repeated violations” of its COVID-19 misinformation coverage.

Greene had confronted an escalating sequence of bans over her inaccurate claims. She falsely claimed in July that COVID-19 wasn’t harmful except you had been over 65 or overweight, and in August incorrectly maintained vaccines had been “failing” in opposition to the brand new coronavirus’ Delta variant. The posts respectively led to 12-hour and one-week suspensions.

In a statement, Greene mentioned expertise firms and Democrats “can’t stop the truth” and accused Twitter of hypocrisy in coping with Democrats, calling Twitter an “enemy to America.” However, she signalled no intentions to problem the ban and mentioned solely “we don’t need them.”

The crackdown comes slightly below a yr after Twitter completely banned former President Trump, and displays the social media large’s much less forgiving perspective towards politicians up to now yr — it is prepared to ban officers for violations reasonably than apply warning labels and in any other case keep away from direct motion. And whereas ban targets like Trump can begin their very own social networks or bounce to anything-goes options, there’s little doubt they will lose some on-line affect by getting kicked off mainstream platforms.