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>> and now we expect this to be permanent, right, this is the fifth strike? >> that's right. twitter operates on a strike system. if you are a politician, you can share a certain amount of dangerous bs whether about covid or elections before you get suspended. and in this case marjorie taylor greene's personal account, which she uses most frequently, has been personally suspended. however, she does have her congressional account which has about 300,000 followers. twitter said the rules will also apply to that. so if she continues to share misinformation, she will get banned. but of course gree...

Nearly two full years into this coronavirus pandemic and dafng rouse misinformation continues to thrive and surge. social media companies still struggling to keep that in check. the latest casualty in that battle though, the personal twitter account of republican congresswoman and conspiracy pusher marjorie taylor greene. over the weekend greene was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the platform's covid misinformation policy. cnn's doney o'sullivan joins us now with more. what was the last straw other? >> yeah. it was a misleading graph that greene posted purporting to show data...

In march of last year, twitter put a strike system in place to combat covid misinformation. so five or more strikes causes the account to be permanently suspended. the tech giant did not specify the exact tweet, she tweeted that day and referenced unverified user information about covid-19 vaccines and falsely quote extremely high amounts of covid vaccine deaths. in response to the ban, representative greene took to the alternative platform telegram asking why those involved with terrorist organizations, and added twitter is an enemy to america. >> no secret the social media companies have bee...

Because every time we get this, it's disturbances every single time like that. on the outskirts of kyiv right now. and we speak there were several planes flying in the direction of the city. and we know from the president's address just several minutes ago that's air strikes are to begin right about now. hopefully our anti-air strike system is going to be able to withstand that. but as we speak, and this is what i say that we are all exhausted from this, because we have helicopters. we have airplanes, fighter jets flying all around all the time. and every time we hear a noise, it's like lookin...

Greene has repeatedly been the instigator of derisive rhetoric and blatantly false information. She once referred to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as a member of the “Jihad Squad.” Before her election to Congress, Greene visited the Washington, D.C. office of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and harassed her staff who then summoned the U.S. Capitol Police.