Earlier this month as the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, also known as the For the People Act, right-leaning Facebook pages earned nearly 2.9 million interactions on posts that pushed false narratives, used extreme language, and fearmongered about the bill particularly its provisions to expand voting rights.
On March 3, the House passed H.R. 1 after two days of debate and other proceedings. The bill is a major election reform measure that would strengthen and expand voting rights protections, help prevent gerrymandering, and promote increased campaign finance transparency.
Media Matters analyzed just over 1,500 Facebook posts about the For the People Act that were published by political pages between March 1, when proceedings started, and March 12, and found that right-leaning pages earned
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Marjorie Taylor Greene did not apologize and did not disavow anything.
She said she had been allowed to believe things that were not true, that the media was just as guilty as QAnon, and that Democrats in Congress wanted to condemn me and crucify me in the public square.
Greene has spread deranged conspiracy theories (that still feed death threats against parents who lost children in Sandy Hook), has called for violence against her colleagues (including liking a post calling for a bullet in Nancy Pelosi’s head and posting an image of herself pointing a gun at three other members of Congress), endorsed sedition leading up to the January 6 coup, and has spread persistent and repeated antisemitic and Islamophobic statements.
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The controversies swirling around the vote to impeach Donald Trump by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) the 4th-ranking Republican in the House and the controversy over QAnon’s favorite congresswoman, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), are threatening to tear the party apart at exactly the wrong moment.
The Biden administration is preparing to make its primal thrust to enact its agenda a $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus bill that doesn’t do much to fight the pandemic but is chock full of goodies for Democratic constituency groups. And the blizzard of executive orders signed by the new president has largely gone unchallenged. Unity in the face of the advancing enemy is critical and the GOP doesn’t have it.