(ETH) – Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is the latest to be suspended from social media giant Twitter after promoting the baseless QAnon conspiracy theories.
According to the report, Greene’s account was suspended after sparring with a state election official over baseless voter fraud allegations. Greene’s account “has been temporarily locked out for multiple violations” of Twitter’s ‘civic integrity policy’, a company representative said in an emailed statement.
Greene reportedly accused Twitter of suppressing conservative political voices. “The borderline monopolistic stranglehold a few Big Tech companies have on the American political discourse is out of control,” she said in a statement. According to Reuters, Greene continued to promote online conspiracy theories from QAnon in a 2017 video but later backtracked, saying it was not part of her campaign.
She won a House seat in conservative rural northwest Georgia after her Democratic opponent dropped out. QAnon supporters are known for propagating conspiracies on social media that include the baseless claim that U.S. President Donald Trump secretly is fighting a cabal of child-sex predators, among them prominent Democrats, figures in Hollywood, and “deep state” allies.
Greene joins tens of thousands of accounts that have been suspended from Twitter that are primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content after the violence in Washington earlier this month when supporters of Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol.
