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Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets Anger Over Big Tech’s Blackout of Brazil’s Social Unrest

After it became apparent that Trump-endorsed extreme right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro would lose a hotly contested runoff election, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to Twitter to denounce lack of coverage here in the US, by claiming “Brazil is rapidly falling into civil unrest after their election and there is a complete blackout on it from American media and Big Tech.”   Of course, the “civil unrest” Greene is referring to, is simply MAGA-style conservative truckers blocking traffic as they did here in the US and in Canada when elections didn’t go their way. Gee, who knew Musk has been censoring right-wing news out of Brazil these days?  Thank goodness we have Ms. Greene to fill us in on everything.   Of course, Greene hasn’t done anything for anyone in her congressional district in the past two years - other than help organize the Jan 6th insurrection, but she’s deeply concerned about Brazil’s elections.   That said, I fully understand why MAGA types...