Twitter says it suspended Rep. Taylor Greene by mistake

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter briefly suspended the account of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday, but later said the move was a mistake.

The Georgia Republican, who has in the past promoted violence against Democrats and conspiracy theories about QAnon and the 9/11 attacks, was unable to post to her account for 12 hours.

San Francisco-based Twitter later said one of the platform’s automated systems suspended Greene by mistake. “This action has been reversed, and access to the account has been reinstated,” the company said in a statement.

The freshman lawmaker then used her account to express her skepticism about Twitter’s explanation to her more than 380,000 followers.



FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021 file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arrives to speak at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twitter briefly suspended the account of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday, March 19, but later said the move was a mistake. The Georgia Republican, who has in the past promoted violence against Democrats and conspiracy theories about QAnon and the 9/11 attacks, was unable to post to her account for 12 hours. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)


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[Polybius]

1. Wow

WTF? She doesn't belong on any social media.

[SoCalNative]

2. Social media?

She doesn't belong in society, period.

[mpcamb]

10. So do it again, ON PURPOSE this time!

[Tommy Carcetti]

3. Twitter:

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Wtf fkg twitter

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. This is understandable. If you had to guess "has Taylor Greene said something awful in the last week

you'd probably say "yes". So maybe the Twitter AI just suspended her without bothering to examine her recent tweets ...

[Turbineguy]

6. Ooooh.

I smell a secret plot there.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Perhaps unintentional, but surely not a mistake.

[hlthe2b]

8. +++

[riversedge]

9. YUP

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Who owns you Twitter? Apparently a lot of hate speech, threatening subscribers.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. I think she will be offered several chances to move toward a more moderate stance

and she won't take any of it. But it's just a guess.

[Ford_Prefect]

13. Sounds to me like CYA by Twitter. I'm betting she did tweet something block-worthy and was

pre-empted correctly...Or she retweeted something verboten.

I'm guessing Twitter is sensitive on the "cancel culture" claims or else didn't intend to close down a source of so many retweets and traffic.

[calimary]

14. Too bad it's not permanent.

Hey, if it's good enough for her lord and master, donald, why shouldn't it be good enough for her? She can say she has that much more in common with him then.

[joetheman]

15. Well, if they are so upset, they should just boycott Twitter.

[llashram]

16. this racist clown

is just as hateful and racist as that other guy they banned. Why all of a sudden was her suspension "a mistake"? The predatory profit mongers are truly afraid of these with virulent hate for all non-white citizens and/or a member of the Democratic Party. And I always thought Colorado was such a beautiful place. Never again can I be so complacent in the visual naivety of mountainous beauty that I don't remember, AmeriKKKa is a racist, hateful place to live for POC.

[regnaD kciN]

17. The only "mistake" was that it was by mistake...

[demtenjeep]

18. exactly

Thank you

[Steelrolled]

19. I have to laugh at how much politicians are beholden to Twitter

What a wacky world we live in.

[ck4829]

20. Ha