The Republican lawmaker told Newsweek that Big Tech is “doing the bidding” of the Biden administration, despite the recent war of words between Facebook and the White House.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused social media companies of conspiring with the White House to censor free speech, as she responded to Newsweek about her suspension from Twitter for promoting “misleading” COVID-19 information. The Republican lawmaker was kicked off Twitter for 12 hours after she repeated her criticism of coronavirus vaccines. The suspension came after an appeal by President Joe Biden and the Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, for tech companies to clamp down against bogus vaccine claims—calls which were met with a strongly-worded rebuttal by Facebook. But despite the dispute between the White House and Facebook, Greene said she believed there was a link to her predicament and the White House push to curb misinformation. In an emailed statement to Newsweek, via her spokesperson, Greene said: “”Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of the Silicon Valley Cartel are working hand in hand with the White House to censor Americans. This is a Communist-style attack on free speech.
