Private Twitter for seven days.

Republican elected official Marjorie Taylor-Greene was suspended on social media after the publication of a "misleading" tweet concerning anti-Covid vaccines, the platform announced on Tuesday.

In a message published on Monday, this ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump said vaccines did not work and therefore urged the US drug agency not to approve them definitively.

Twitter has since tagged the tweet as "misleading," in accordance with its Covid-19 information policy, and urges users to refer to information provided by health authorities.

"The account will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of Twitter rules," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.

Final suspension after five infringements

Twitter's rules on disinformation related to Covid-19 state that a seven-day suspension is the consequence of a fourth violation of these rules.

In the event of a fifth offense, the elected representative of Georgia risks the permanent suspension of her Twitter account.

“Twitter suspended me for telling the truth, for tweeting what a lot of people are saying,” reacted the elected official in a statement, after reiterating her accusations about the ineffectiveness of anti-Covid vaccines.

The other conspiracy theories of the Republican elected official

In February, she apologized for spreading conspiracy theories that had earned her exclusion from two committees in the House of Representatives.

Almost four months later, she had sparked new controversy by comparing the mask-wearing obligations to the obligation for Jews to wear the yellow star under Nazism.

Before she was elected to Congress in November, this staunch supporter of Donald Trump had also questioned the reality of several deadly shootings, suspecting staging aimed at toughening gun laws, and put in doubts part of the 9/11 attacks.

She also claimed in 2019 that the Democratic President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was guilty of "treason", a crime according to her "punishable by death".

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