Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, leader of the fictitious QAnon caucus and the somehow very real and weirdly fascistic America First Caucus, has turned her Twitter feed into a misinformation super-spreader site, so Twitter has quarantined her. On Tuesday, the congresswoman who has made it her calling to be awful online and in person got hit with a temporary suspension for posts that violated the platform's rules regarding sharing misleading information about coronavirus. The brief ban lasted 12 hours, which explains why things were suddenly so peaceful for awhile there.
It's hard to pinpoint the cause of Greene's suspension to just one tweet, because she spends most of her day shitposting and sharing nonsense that feeds into the worst impulses of the conspiracy-minded. But the temporary lockout appears to be the result of a weekend's worth of misinformation. According to Vice, Greene tweeted on Sunday, "The controversial #COVID19 vaccines should not be forced on our military for a virus that is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65," which is not true. She also falsely claimed that the vaccine is linked to "6,000 vax related deaths," — a figure that is based on reports filed with the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which collects self-reported and unverified reactions to vaccines. There is currently no evidence to suggest that vaccines have been related to any deaths — and even if the shots were responsible for 6,000 deaths as Greene claims, that is out of more than 338 million administered.
