Reactivated Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to test 'every limit of free speech' on Twitter

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
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Less than one year after Twitter "permanently suspended" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account from its platform for violating its company policy on COVID-19 misinformation, the Georgia Republican returned on Monday to the site she'd once blasted as "an enemy to America." Greene's account is a beneficiary of new owner Elon Musk's rolling effort to reactivate predominantly far right-wing figures previously barred under Twitter's earlier leadership, including former President Donald Trump.

In a more than hour-long broadcast from her newly resurrected personal account (her official congressional account, @RepMTG, has remained active since her suspension) Greene vowed to spend her time "testing every limit of free speech that I have," asking at one point "why does it take a billionaire buying Twitter to restore people's freedom of speech?"

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Rafi Schwartz, The Week US

Rafi Schwartz has worked as a politics writer at The Week since 2022, where he covers elections, Congress and the White House. He was previously a contributing writer with Mic focusing largely on politics, a senior writer with Splinter News, a staff writer for Fusion's news lab, and the managing editor of Heeb Magazine, a Jewish life and culture publication. Rafi's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GOOD and The Forward, among others.