United States: Twitter suspends the account of an elected ultra-right

Qs few days after sanctioning Donald Trump, Twitter did it again Sunday, January 17, temporarily suspending the account of an American member of the ultra-right Republican, follower of conspiracy theories, for having violated the rules of integrity of speech on the network social, said Twitter and the office of the elected. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a recently elected representative from Georgia (South) to Congress who does not hide her affinities with the QAnon conspiracy movement, had tweeted earlier Sunday about the Georgia senatorial elections, arguing of fraud.

The MP’s messages were then given a special mention by Twitter indicating that “this claim that there was electoral fraud is disputed. We cannot reply to this Tweet or retweet it because of the risk of violence, ”the group said. Sunday afternoon, Twitter decided to ban the MP for twelve hours. “The account in question has been temporarily suspended for multiple violations of our rules of conduct,” said a spokesperson for Twitter in an email to Agence France-Presse.

Marjorie Taylor Greene denounces a “monopoly takeover”

The move marks the latest installment in tech greats’ efforts to purge their platforms of pro-Trump extremists after the violent incidents on Capitol Hill on January 6. Two days after riots by his supporters that invaded Congress buildings, Twitter had permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account. The president’s favorite communication tool, it had more than 88 million subscribers. In addition to its flagship measure, Twitter also deleted 70,000 QAnon affiliate accounts last weekend.

Facebook has for its part undertaken to remove all messages related to the slogan “Stop the steal” and suspended the profile of the tenant of the White House for an indefinite period. Google and Apple have excluded the social network Parler from their application download platforms. And Amazon has driven the point home by ousting the conservative network, popular with Donald Trump’s supporters, from its servers, which is tantamount to driving it out of the internet.

In a statement Marjorie Taylor Greene protested: “Days after the Silicon Valley cartel launched a multi-front attack to muzzle free speech in America by ‘de-platforming’ President Donald Trump and purging a number of accounts conservatives, Twitter has decided to suspend my personal account without explanation ”. “This monopoly grip that a few tech greats have over American political discourse is out of control,” she adds.


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