Twitter Pretends To Punish Marjorie Taylor Greene For Spreading Lies

Twitter had finally had enough of Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's lies this week, and they took action against her account. Well, they TRIED to take action, but only ended up suspending her account for 12 hours. The pandemic is raging on in America, and Taylor Greene is a huge source of misinformation, yet Twitter refuses to take meaningful action to get rid of her lies that could end up getting people killed. Instead, these small suspensions only serve to make her stronger, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

Become a member today!

Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!

Find our merchandise at Teespring

Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content!

Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel

Be sociable! Follow us on:

Follow more of our stories at

Subscribe to our podcast

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

On Monday of this week after a, you know, day and a half, basically of doing nothing but spreading COVID misinformation on Twitter, Twitter finally decided to suspend Marjorie Taylor Greene for a period of 12 hours. In other words, she got put in a Twitter time out for the second time this year, because earlier this year, she got put in a Twitter time out another 12 hour suspension, for spreading election lies 5, 6, 7 months later, whatever it is. Gets put in another one for spreading lies about COVID including one of the lies she told was that there's been 6,000 vaccine related deaths here in the United States, which is completely false. No reality whatsoever behind that statement. So Twitter finally said, dang it, we gotta do something about this.

You can't get into your account for 12 hours, half a day. You know, go take a long nap and then you can come back to Twitter. This is, this is nothing, folks. This is Twitter pretending to do something about the misinformation coming from people like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now I am obviously not a fan of censorship, but at some point we do have to understand that the health, safety and welfare of the American public is on the line here and sometimes there are things you have to do, like kicking and idiot off of Twitter for good, in order to protect the public. I have no problem, I have no problem whatsoever, if Twitter were to come out and say, Marjorie Taylor Greene, you're outta here.

You can't come back, have a nice life. But you've lied repeatedly. You break our terms of service on a regular basis. Hell, she even came out yesterday, did a little press conference said, I'm not going to stop tweeting this stuff. So she is openly inviting you to kick her off the platform again. And here's the thing. Every time you give her one of these little paltry punishments like, oh, you can't tweet for 12, every time you do that, you make her stronger because she comes back with a vengeance. She get's 12 hours of sympathy, 12 hours of I'm being censored with her followers. Kick her off the platform for good and sure, she's going to get some immediate support right away, but eventually she's going to fade away much like Donald Trump did.

And that's what you have to do. That's how you have to tackle this misinformation. That is how you have to tackle this wacko individual who has done some horrendous things outside of spreading COVID lies, vaccine lies and election lies. This woman has no place on Twitter whatsoever and believe it or not, folks, she is not alone. We are at a point right now, obviously we're COVID is surging once again throughout the United States. Misinformation is reigning supreme. Misinformation coming from individuals, actually just a dozen individuals, is leading people to not get vaccinated. And yet every day there's new stories about, oh, so-and-so anti-vaxxer gets COVID and dies.

A healthy five-year-old from the state of Georgia with no pre-existing conditions caught COVID and died. Oh, somebody spreading conspiracy theories about COVID on, on social media, just had a lung transplant because of COVID. These stories are all too common and they're sad. And people like Marjorie Taylor Greene are making these stories happen more and more.