This content was published on 10 August 2021 – 16:50
San Francisco, Aug 10 (EFE) .- The social network Twitter suspended from this Monday for a week the account of the Republican congresswoman of the United States Marjorie Taylor Greene for publishing a message in which she assured that vaccines are “failing” and that “They do not reduce the spread of the virus.”
Greene, a representative for Georgia and one of the most controversial figures in the US Congress, called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) not to approve vaccines against covid-19.
Although they have been widely distributed and inoculated to the population for months, the vaccines only have an emergency approval, not yet definitive.
Twitter moderators considered that Greene’s message questioning the effectiveness of vaccines constitutes a violation of their policy, which prohibits posting false or misleading information about COVID-19 and that it may “cause harm.”
The suspension means that Greene will not be able to send tweets, retweet, like or follow other users for the next seven days, although he will be able to continue communicating with his followers through direct messages.
“Twitter suspended me for telling the truth, and for publishing what many people are saying,” the congresswoman defended in a statement, and assured that “the truth is very offensive to all the fragile hypocrites of Twitter.”
The entire original message shared by Greene read: “The FDA should not approve vaccines against covid-19. There are too many cases of infections and transmission of the virus among vaccinated people. These vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus, and neither do masks. Mandatory vaccinations violate our individual freedoms. “
This is the third time that the controversial representative for Georgia has received a suspension by Twitter for sharing information that the San Francisco company considers false. EFE
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