Elon Musk's Twitter reinstates Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

34 minutes ago

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 at the time.

Greene’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 was allowed to remain on the platform. Trump himself has said he won’t return to Twitter and as of Monday had not yet 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 won’t make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts before setting up a “ content moderation council ” with diverse viewpoints.

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.



FILE - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 17, 2022. Elon Musk’s Twitter on Monday, Nov. 21, has reinstated the personal account of far-right Greene, which was banned in January for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation policies at the time. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)


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[sakabatou]

1. Not surprised.

[moonshinegnomie]

2. i hope musk goes bankrupt.

my next vehicle will be electric. zero chance i would ever buy a tesla

[Roy Rolling]

21. He's Working on the Bankruptcy Thing

Tesla stock since Thanksgiving 2021. The financial wizards have spoken—they don’t think Musk adds value to Tesla. "

[AllyCat]

3. I've deleted the bird thing.

Done with the whole mess.

[YoshidaYui]

4. BLOCKED

so I DON'T have to see her insane tweets.

[edhopper]

5. just leave

Twitter

[YoshidaYui]

8. No way

My family is there, and I will stay until the bolts fall out .

[d_r]

11. What's it going to take?

[BidenRocks]

6. Twi

Never have and never will!

[GenThePerservering]

7. Cook the bird NT

[bdamomma]

9. MTG

is going to be, using twitter to spew more conspiracy theories, hate and division. If there's another insurrection it will be documented as evidence. I hope she goes over the cliff.

[JohnSJ]

10. I guess those who remain with twitter have no problem with how Musk runs that platform

[NullTuples]

20. That's not completely correct, unfortunately

There are some communities that will likely be much slower in migrating to other platforms. Not all other platforms are disabled accessible, for instance. But also people depend on their communities; until that community decides as a group (ie, enough get fed up and leave due to some event) to leave, they'll likely stick around. Many of them have carefully cultivated their blocks and follows to - in the past anyway - eliminate most of the noise people think of when they hear Twitter.

[Ford_Prefect]

12. What gives??? She couldn't use Truth Social like all the other MAGATS??? Simple minds, eh?

Eloon must crave some serious cray-cray to invite her and all the other wannabees back to the blue lagoon.

[twodogsbarking]

13. One question for MTG

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[yankee87]

14. Twitter or Truth Social

I wonder which of these platforms will go down first? If Twitter survives it will just be another Gab or 4chan.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Musk has shown who he is. Believe him. And go back to another form of communication. nt

[orthoclad]

16. THIS

Twitter is not ground to fight over. It's private property. It's now Mordor. Our presence only feeds Sauron, by giving him ad fodder.

Twitter was improving in some respects. I hated it for infantilizing discourse down to 140 words, but then longer posts and threadreader came along. But it's history now. Time to move on.

Unless the UN takes it over and runs it as a non-profit. Or as someone said, a worker-owned co-op. Fat chance. Move on and build a better community. It's already dead, just not yet decayed.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Like "Mordor." Welcome!

[orthoclad]

27. Thanks. In another post,

I called it a feudal serfdom run by Mad King Ludwig (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria). Some of Musk's ("Cheechon Chusk" ) stoner behavior reminds me of him.

I've always avoided all things tooter, zuckbook, and gaggle, because they're owned and run by capitalist predators. "If the service is free, YOU are the product". I did soc med back in BBS days (1200 baud modem). Those were clubs run by friends. From what little I've seen, Mastodon is a vastly upscaled version of that.

I'll kinda be glad when tooter finally dies, because it seems like about 3/4 of the posts here consist of a large white space with the words "Link to tweet" in the middle, nothing else. My net hygiene blocks tooter as a dangerous place. I wish people would make the effort to actually say what they're posting about. A few, like Nevilledog, have the courtesy to do so.

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Good info. I think you will find that DU'ers expect wll-informed, researched and sourced info that

includes a link to support any position/ statements. I'm more of a reactor but there are some seriously knowledgeable folks on DU. I think you will find it a breath of fresh air!
FWIW, I don't recognize most of the sites you reference, for better or worse!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. So will I be sent to Twitmo if I throw her shit back in her face?

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Twitter: This machine births fascists

(With apologies to Pete Seeger’s banjo.)

[cstanleytech]

19. I am glad I closed my Twitter account as I refuse to be a party in supporting a platform that has

people like her and Trump.

[Farmer-Rick]

22. And all the swamp monsters are allowed back in

Musk's mission is accomplished.

He turned Twitter into a right wing cesspool and got one up on the libs for $44 billion.

[The Wizard]

23. Post pictures of her caveman feet

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[dalton99a]

25. +1

[Martin68]

24. Musk looks like a 5-year-old playing in a mud puddle.