Twitter has temporarily limited the account of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene after she repeatedly posted a graphic that referred to a “Trans Day of Vengeance.”
Twitter Removes Some Tweets of Greene
The social media company “Twitter” has removed the post in question and conducted a “sweep” to remove over 5,000 tweets and retweets of the graphic, including Greene’s, according to a published article in NBC News.
According to Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice president of product overseeing trust and safety, the company does not support tweets that incite violence, irrespective of who posts them.
In the wake of the tragic events in Nashville, where six people were gunned down at a Christian elementary school, Irwin added that a high number of users reported the graphic on Monday due to heightened sensitivity to the language.
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Other Restrictions of Greene’s Twitter Account
Police identified the shooter as a transgender former student of The Covenant School, which has led to some GOP lawmakers focusing on the suspect’s gender identity in the intensifying battle waged by some conservatives against transgender people.
Greene has been a vocal critic of transgender rights on Capitol Hill. She has placed a sign outside her office mocking a Democratic lawmaker whose daughter is transgender and co-sponsored legislation to ban U.S. embassies from flying the LGBTQ pride flag.
Last year, she supported a proposal to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, and she said this month that she planned to reintroduce the measure. Twitter’s restriction of Greene’s account is not the first time she has violated the company’s policies.
In 2022, her personal account was suspended for repeatedly violating Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. Twitter also flagged a tweet on her congressional account that mocked a transgender Biden administration official, saying the post violated the company’s rules for hateful conduct.
Greene was also repeatedly suspended in 2021 for false claims about election fraud in Georgia and for her tweets about vaccines. Twitter decided to restrict the graphic from being shared, but there is no impact on users for having tweeted it unless it was reposted after removal or was posted with additional calls for violence or wishes of harm.
Greene’s office shared a copy of the deleted post and Twitter’s communication with her but did not provide any additional comment. As of now, Twitter has restored the full functionality of Greene’s account, and she has not made any further comments on the matter.