Twitter Temporarily Suspends QAnon Rep. For Election Disinformation, Inciting Violence

Twitter temporarily locked newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her personal account on Sunday afternoon after the QAnon follower sent out a slew of tweets that pushed election disinformation and incited supporters of President Donald Trump to “mobilize” and “make your voices heard.”

The Georgia Republican, who has a history of using her account to tweet incendiary rhetoric, “has been temporarily locked out for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy,” a Twitter spokesperson told HuffPost. According to the platform’s policy, the penalty for Green’s violations is to be locked out of her account for 12 hours, though further violations could extend that period to a week, or even result in the account being permanently suspended.

In a now-deleted tweet sent Saturday night, Greene said she encourages “all Americans, not just the 75 million people who voted for President Trump, to mobilize and make your voices heard in opposition to these attacks on our liberties.” The tweet was part of a thread in which she claimed without evidence that Democrats and the Biden administration “are looking for any reason to implement Communist Chinese-style spying and censorship on the American people.”

The tweet inciting Trump supporters came the night before the nation was bracing for potential armed demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and at all 50 state capitols, ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. While small groups of right-wing protesters gathered outside heavily guarded statehouses, there were no reports of violence as of Sunday evening.

On Sunday morning, the 12-hour lock-out appeared to be triggered after...

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