Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) congressional Twitter account has been suspended for a week after she condemned calls for a “Trans Day Of Vengeance” made before the Nashville school attack by a 28-year-old transgender shooter.
It was part of a Twitter-wide takedown of mentions of the event.
Greene was initially suspended after she tweeted that antifa was organizing the event, announced before the shooting yesterday that killed three children and three adults.
After her account was restored, she was suspended again after she retweeted the post that offended Twitter. That was followed by a notice that the lawmaker’s account was suspended for seven days.
“After 3000 RTs of this tweet, my account was suspended AGAIN. Why is Twitter whitewashing the ‘Trans Day of Vengeance,’ @elonmusk? A day after a mass murder of children by a trans shooter? The people need to know about the threat they face from Antifa & trans-terrorism!!!” she wrote before the seven-day suspension hit.
Several conservative news sites wrote about the protest day after trans shooter Audrey Hale went on a killing spree at the private Covenant School yesterday.
“We had to automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets /retweets of this poster,” Ella G. Irwin, vice president of trust and safety at Twitter, posted Tuesday. “We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.”
Greene followed up those reports by uploading the poster promoting the day of protest in Washington. She called on the Justice Department to investigate.
Twitter said, however, that she had violated their rules against violent speech.
Greene wrote, “I condemned the incitement to violence & demanded a federal law enforcement investigation in the tweet.”
On her personal Twitter account, which she uses in tandem with the congressional one, she wrote of violating rules, “This is a lie. My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called ‘Trans Day of Vengeance.’ The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter. Restore my account immediately.”
She has at times been suspended in the past but had hoped that new Twitter owner Elon Musk would be more open and transparent.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/mtg-twitter-suspended-over-highlighting-trans-vengeance-day
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