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Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has won her Congressional race in Georgia. CNN reports that Greene is a businesswoman "known for espousing conspiratorial and bigoted views." She has promoted "Q," an anonymous central character in a conspiracy theory. According to the conspiracy theory Pres. Donald Trump secretly fights to bring down a cabal of pedophiles. The Democratic candidate, Kevin Van Ausdal, withdrew from the race for family and personal reasons. Greene's victory in her conservative district was overwhelming.
Twitter has permanently suspended President Donald Trump from accessing his account. Facebook moved to block Trump "indefinitely" on Thursday following a violent siege of the US Capitol. "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the company said in a tweet. Plans to storm the Capitol had been circulating on social media sites like Facebook. The plans were also spread on Twitter and Parler in the weeks leading up to the attack.
A Democratic-led US House votes to discipline Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories, capping weeks of mounting turmoil over holding to account a lawmaker whose extremist rhetoric caused a rupture in Republican ranks. IMAGES
Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern speaks on the floor of the US House of Representatives ahead of a vote to remove representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee roles over extremist past statements, which includes her harassment of a teen school shooting survivor, trafficking in anti-Semitic and xenophobic tropes, and support of social media posts that endorsed assassinating Democratic lawmakers. "If this isn't the bottom, then I don't know what the hell is," says McGovern in a speech. SOUNDBITE