By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: Twitter said on Sunday it had banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy — the latest strike against the firebrand whose embrace of conspiracy theories has been called "a cancer" for the Republican Party and led the House to boot her from committees
The Georgia Republican's account was permanently suspended under the "strike" system launched by Twitter in March. It uses artificial intelligence to identify posts about the coronavirus that are misleading enough to cause harm to people.
Twitter had previously suspended Greene's personal account for periods ranging from 12 hours to a full week. The ban applies to Greene's personal account, @mtgreenee, but does not affect her official Twitter account, @RepMTG.