
Twitter’s policy against hateful conduct includes comments that “promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”Ĭorrection: The story has been changed to reflect that Rachel Levine was one of USA Today’s Women of the Year. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, was slapped with a warning for tweeting, “a dude who lived the first 50 years of his life as a man isn’t the first female anything.” On March 15 and 16, it put out tweets saying, 'The Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine.' It isn't unusual for The Bee, a satirical site known for poking fun at liberals with its witty headlines and jokes, On this occasion though, it appears Twitter didn't see the funny side. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who is a transgender woman. Twitter Suspends Babylon Bee for Naming Ra-chel Levine Man of the Year, N. However, it was a lesson The Bee did not take. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. T witter locked out the owners of the Babylon Bee account over a tweet mocking U.S. Levine’s promotion to four-star admiral in the U.S. Twitters policy is interesting because it allows for the tweet to stay up and available to the public. Levine, 64, was honored for her work in the Biden administration leading 6,000 uniformed public health officers during a pandemic.

Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, was suspended in October for a tweet saying “The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” referring to Dr. The Babylon Bee tweet was posted after USA Today named Levine, who is transgender, as one of its Women of the Year. Twitter has shown little tolerance for those who refer to Dr.

The former Pennsylvania health secretary reportedly transitioned from male to female in 2011 at the age of 53.
