Twitter bans comedian Abi Roberts

Twitter has banned comedian and political commentator Abi Roberts from its platform after she criticized COVID-19 vaccines in several tweets.

Roberts had over 46,000 followers when she was banned and created her account over 13 years ago in 2008.

In an episode of her “Abi Daily” podcast, Roberts said she was suspended after Twitter flagged two of her tweets.

She said one of the flagged tweets contained criticism of TalkTV presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer.

“It was Julia Hartley-Brewer…I was basically saying to her…’how can you keep…pushing these so-called vaccines?'” Roberts said. “‘Why won’t you just admit it…that you got it wrong?'”

Roberts added that she told Hartley-Brewer there are problems with the vaccine and accused the vaccines of harming people and causing deaths in the flagged tweet.

The other flagged tweet, according to Roberts, was a response to a tweet from statistician Jamie Jenkins. Jenkins’ tweet claimed that COVID-19 vaccines “work for those whose immune system has weakened over their lifetime” but “for those whose immune system is fine to attack it, you can leave it to nature.”

Roberts said that in her flagged response to Jenkins, she asked “what th...