On Thursday, Georgie Republican Rep. Marjorie Three Names unleashed a paranoid tweet suggesting that the New York Times is collaborating with Twitter to get her banned from the behemoth social site. To be part of the Republican party these days, you have to see a conspiracy behind everything — And everyone is out to get you. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted out a screen capture of an email from Davey Alba, a technology reporter at the New York Times who covers disinformation.
Alba referred to a previous tweet of Greene’s in which she railed against vaccine mandates by claiming that she talked to women who miscarried after taking the COVID vaccine. That anti-vax talking point has been debunked, by the way.
Twitter is likely to take enforcement action on Ms. Greene’s account for coronavirus information,” Ms. Alba wrote in the email. “It would be her fourth strike, meaning she would have one strike to go before potentially being permanently suspended from the platform. Would Ms. Greene want to respond to this in a statement?”
Greene went off over the email.
“How would the @nytimes know that my @Twitter account is about to be suspended?” Greene tweeted. “My account is NOT suspended. What kind of relationship does the NYT and Twitter have? Do they coordinate suspending people like me and news stories? Is someone paying for that? Why?”
How would the @nytimes know that my @Twitter account is about to be suspended?
My account is NOT suspended.
What kind of relationship does the NYT and Twitter have?
Do they coordinate suspending people like me and news stories?
Is someone paying for that?
Why? pic.twitter.com/8Hcy7qeACN
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) August 5, 2021
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Twitter users took Greene to school.
How this sounds:
– Surveillance video shows a dude running out of a jewelry store with a big bag and a massive gun.
– A Channel 6 reporter announces that when caught, the guy will probably be arrested.
– Rep. Greene inquires as to how the Channel 6 guy knows about the arrest.
— Jean L.P. Jaurès 🌎🔬📚⚖️ (@pitgpitw1) August 5, 2021
Or….they saw you spreading more CORONA misinformation and used logic
— Noble Prize in Sarcasm (@rewegreatyet) August 5, 2021
According to the picture you have attached, they say that enforcement action is likely due to you spreading coronavirus misinformation. They do not say that your account is currently suspended. Reading is hard.
— This Account Just Answers TTTBE Questions (@TTTBE_Guesses) August 5, 2021
I want to speak to the manager!
— jusțiņ (@XjumauX) August 5, 2021
[eye roll]
Because people who have tweeted as you have in the past have had their accounts suspended. The only thing surprising/shocking here is that it hasn’t happened yet.
— Laurie Rodriguez (@ProfessorPongo) August 5, 2021
they literally explain why they suspect it in this image
— Alex🌹 (@Alex4Rep) August 5, 2021
mtg: posts an email explaining why the nyt thinks she may get suspended
also mtg: “why do they think this? is this a big tech conspiracy?” https://t.co/pXMRkoGSKn
— Alex🌹 (@Alex4Rep) August 5, 2021
Paranoid, are we? 🤣
— Tim Murphy 🇺🇸 (@Murp1953Tim) August 5, 2021
It’s a coordinated conspiracy between AOC and the owners of the Jewish lasers to deprive you of your God given right to free speech. https://t.co/0TArjgt7j7
— Richard L. Wehmeyer (@RichardLWehmey1) August 5, 2021
What an absolute walnut.
Featured image via screen capture
