Twitter stated Sunday it has completely suspended the private account of outspoken Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for violating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation coverage.

The lawmaker from Georgia is a loud and fervent supporter of Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and can also be recognized for making outlandish anti-vaccine claims and different false statements in regards to the coronavirus pandemic.

Twitter stated it was shutting down Greene’s private account – @mtgreenee – for repeated violations of its COVID misinformation coverage. She nonetheless has entry to her official Twitter deal with, which is @RepMTG.

Greene used the private another ceaselessly.

“We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” Twitter stated in an announcement despatched to AFP.

“We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy,” it added.

Twitter didn’t specify precisely what Greene stated to deserve this punishment.

Greene hit again after her suspension, saying in an announcement on Telegram that Twitter is “an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth. That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies. “

Twitter’s COVID misinformation police staff a strike system that metes out steadily escalating sanctions for violations.

One strike ends in nothing, as an example; three strikes ends in a 12-hour account lock, and 5 strikes trigger everlasting suspension.

Twitter had sanctioned Greene earlier than the everlasting suspension.

Her account was suspended for one week in August after she tweeted that the Food and Drug Administration shouldn’t approve COVID vaccines as a result of they had been “failing” to sluggish the unfold of the virus.

On Saturday, she tweeted that deaths from vaccines was once taken severely in America however now “extremely high amount of COVID vaccine deaths are ignored and government forced vaccine mandates are increased.”

A 12 months in the past, Twitter banned Trump from the platform after the January 6 riot on the US Capitol by Trump supporters, who had been fired up by his claims that he was robbed of victory over Joe Biden.