Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, which was banned in January for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation policies.
The Georgia Republican’s reinstatement comes after Musk over the weekend reinstated the account of former President Donald Trump, who was banned in the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol in 2021. Twitter — at the time — feared there was a risk of further incitement to violence if Trump were allowed to remain on the platform. Trump himself has said he won’t return to Twitter and as of Monday had not tweeted since the reinstatement, although he also hasn’t deleted his account.
Musk apparently based his decision to allow Trump back on the site on an unscientific Twitter poll he posted on his timeline. There appeared to be no such poll for Greene’s account.
Earlier, Musk said he would not make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts before setting up a “ content moderation council ” with diverse viewpoints. Neither Twitter nor Musk have announced the existence of such a council. Twitter did not respond to a message for comment on Monday.
Musk has frequently expressed his belief that Twitter had become too restrictive. Before the U.S. midterm elections this month, he urged his “independent-minded” Twitter followers to vote Republican.
One account Musk has said he won’t allow back on Twitter is that of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was banned in 2018 for abusive behavior.
“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat,” Musk tweeted Sunday in response to calls for Jones’ reinstatement. “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
Jones was sued by victims’ families for promoting false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Judgements against him have totaled $1.44 billion.
(AP)
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Oh thank you musk for allowing hateful anti Semites back on your platform.
Good. Greene is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but she is not a bad person, she does not engage in hatred or bigotry, and she is entitled to the same respect as any other person. Banning her from Twitter was a very wrong thing to do, motivated entirely by the previous management’s insane hatred for Republicans, and Musk is right to reverse it.
Alex Jones, on the other hand, has nothing of value to contribute anywhere. I wouldn’t have banned him, but since he’s already banned I wouldn’t give him an account.
Rt,
Your idiocy is showing
Was the ayatollahs banned? What about ye? Maybe Ilan Omar should also be banned?
Oh wait they aren’t republicans, so it’s understandable
To Milhose: Greene is not an anti-Semite? So there really are Jewish space lasers? Do you have one, and if so, please tell me where I can get one.
Huju, there is no evidence at all that Greene is an antisemite. It is a blood libel that you and your Democrat compatriots have deliberately invented and spread.
And no, she never said anything abut “Jewish space lasers”. That is another DAMMED LIE that you are knowingly spreading because you are a DAMMED LIAR.
Milhouse
Technically you are correct
But she did say “space lasers controlled by the Rothschilds” (I know, she didn’t know the Rothschild were Jewish)
Scroll back to these posts and be ashamed: Jews disagreeing about the bona fides of a Gentile congresswoman and descending into vicious invective. Aiding and comforting the enemy, no?
Mentch1
First of all, she didn’t say anything on the topic. It was a retweet, which as you know very well, and as the courts have affirmed, does not necessarily reflect the views of the person retweeting.
Second, the tweet that she forwarded was about a specific employee of the Rothschild corporation, who was in fact involved both in space lasers and in the California fast train boondoggle. Suggesting that these two facts were connected, and could explain the fires, is completely lunatic, but it is not in any way antisemitic. Even if the person did know that the Rothschild family is originally of Jewish descent — which has not been established — that would not make it antisemitic to make any suggestion of wrongdoing by anyone associated with the family’s company. Stupid, yes, but not antisemitic.