Marjorie Taylor Greene says she additionally misplaced entry to Facebook, a day after Twitter banned her private account. Unlike Twitter’s suspension, which is everlasting, Facebook’s penalty will solely final for twenty-four hours. According to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News and different sources, Greene shared a screenshot on Telegram and Gettr (a social media platform for conservatives) exhibiting a Facebook notification telling her that may’t submit or touch upon the web site for twenty-four hours. 

A spokesperson has confirmed to the publications that the social community eliminated considered one of her posts for violating its insurance policies, however that “removing her account for this violation is beyond the scope of [its] policies.” In specific, her submit violated the Meta-owned platform’s COVID-19 misinformation guidelines. It’s value noting that Facebook and Twitter have solely suspended her private accounts. Her verified authorities accounts stay lively.

Greene reportedly posted about “extremely high amounts of COVID vaccine deaths” with unverified uncooked information from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. The system is a authorities database managed by the CDC and the FDA, however it depends on people to ship in reviews of their expertise. VAERS’ web site states that it is “not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem” and that “additional work and evaluation [of its data] is necessary to further assess a possible safety concern.” Facebook began taking a harder stance in opposition to misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and vaccines typically in early 2021.

Greene is thought for questioning the general public well being measures put into place to stop the additional unfold of COVID-19. In addition to opposing vaccine mandates, she additionally famously refuses to put on a masks on the House flooring and has racked up tens of 1000’s of {dollars} in fines. Talking about her Facebook suspension on Telegram and Gettr, Greene wrote:

“Facebook has joined Twitter in censoring me… Who appointed Twitter and Facebook to be the authorities of information and misinformation? When Big Tech decides what political speech of elected Members is accepted and what’s not then they are working against our government and against the interest of our people.”

Conservative politicians have lengthy complained about being censored by the largest social media platforms. Back in October, former President Donald Trump introduced that he is planning to launch his personal social community this 12 months as a part of his camp’s efforts to struggle again in opposition to “the Big Tech companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America.”