Facebook on Monday suspended Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account for 24 hours for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. One day after permanently banning one of his Twitter accounts to send a similar message.
Ms. Greene, a Georgia Republican, falsely posted about the “extremely high number of Covid vaccine deaths”. He published the message on Saturday as part of a lengthy post on American life “Before Covid” and “After Covid” calling for public health measures to contain the spread of this coronavirus, including testing, mask-wearing and vaccination mandates.
On Monday morning, on the alternative social messaging platform Telegram, Ms. Greene posted a screenshot of a Facebook notification that read, “You can’t post or comment for 24 hours,” stating that Facebook’s community standards were violated.
“A post violated our policies and we have removed it, but removing your account for this violation is outside the scope of our policies,” Facebook spokesman Aaron Simpson said in a statement.
The social network has increasingly changed its content policies over the past two years as the coronavirus escalated. in December 2020 It said it would remove posts with claims that have been refuted by the World Health Organization or government agencies.
Facebook has suspended Ms. Greene’s personal Facebook account where she posted the message about the vaccines. The company left the verified government account active. Twitter, which said it banned Ms. Greene’s personal account after receiving a fifth “warning”, also left the government account active.
Ms. Greene’s post cited misleading information from a government database of unverified raw data. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Systemor VAERS, a decades-old system based on self-reported cases by patients and healthcare providers.
Except for a rare blood clotting disorder related to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, there is no evidence of common major side effects from coronavirus vaccines. Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month. At least nine deaths related to the disorder occurred in the United States last year, leading the agency to recommend using other approved vaccines instead.
The VAERS database, administered by the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC, has been cited in many coronavirus lies to challenge the idea that the side effects of coronavirus vaccines are underreported. VAERS database overview FDA’s website VAERS reports that “in general, a vaccine cannot be used to determine whether it causes or contributes to an adverse event or illness.”