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The
congresswoman from Georgia is the first member of Congress to
ever have a Twitter account permanently banned.
Twitter has previously issued a short-term suspension for
Greene's account, @mtgreenee, for tweets about COVID that it
called "misleading". At least two other Republican members of
the House have received temporary suspensions on Twitter -- Jim
Banks and Barry Moore.
"Twitter is an enemy to America and can't handle the truth,"
Greene said in a statement on messaging app Telegram, adding
that social media platforms "can't stop the truth from being
spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist
Democrats can't stop the truth."
The official account of the congresswoman, @ReptMTG, remains
active on Twitter and has 390,000 followers, slightly less than
the 465,000 on her banned personal account.
Greene has come under fire before for remarks on the pandemic.
Last June she apologized after comparing COVID-19 mask
requirements and vaccinations to the Holocaust that killed 6
million Jews.
Last January, Twitter temporarily locked Greene's account after
she sparred with a state election official over voter fraud
allegations.
Twitter and several other social media platforms banned former
President Donald Trump from their services after his supporters
attacked the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
(Reporting Katanga Johnson in Washington; Additional reporting
by Sneha Bhowmik in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)=
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