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Marjorie Taylor Greene laid into former Twitter executives in a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday for banning her account in 2020 and accused former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth of endorsing child sexualization, a claim Twitter owner Elon Musk made previously that led to right-wing harassment against Roth.

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Greene began her five-minute speech by telling the three former Twitter executives testifying before the committee: “You can consider your speech canceled during my time, because you canceled mine.”

Twitter’s ban on Greene’s account in January 2020 for violating its policy against Covid-19 misinformation prevented her from communicating with constituents during her 2020 election campaign, she said, noting the account was reinstated after she won the election in November of that year.

Greene also renewed a claim made by Twitter owner Elon Musk in December accusing Roth of suggesting minors be given access to the gay dating website Grindr, saying, “here’s something that disgusts me about you.”

Greene was referring to Roth’s dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania that explored the possibility of a safer alternative to dating apps for LGBTQ youth—something Musk highlighted in a series of Tweets after Roth resigned from the company, and which led to threats and harassment that Roth said forced him to sell his home and move.

She also noted the 2021 lawsuit filed against Twitter by a minor and his mother for failing to remove sexual...

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