Marjorie Taylor Greene gets longest Twitter suspension yet after falsely claiming COVID vaccines and masks don't work
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has once again been suspended from Twitter for sharing misinformation about COVID-19. Her account is on a seven-day lock, according to Twitter.
The suspension comes one day after Greene tweeted that the FDA "should not approve" COVID vaccines. She falsely claimed that "vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus and neither do masks." The tweet is no longer able to be shared and has been attached with a label indicating that it is misleading. A Twitter spokesperson told CBS News that Greene's tweet was flagged for misinformation and that her account will be in read-only mode for a week "due to repeated violations."Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
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Another American who was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands for possessing ammunition was sentenced to time served and a $9,000 fine on Tuesday, local media reported. Tyler Wenrich was facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in prison for ammunition charges in the British territory.