AOC: ‘It Was Really Hard Watching People in Communities That I Am Aligned with Fall for Right-Wing Misinformation’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “The amount of misinformation that has exploded because people are chasing retweets of a lie has been really painful. Like, there — we are, especially in terms of social media, we are on the platforms of billionaires. And these billionaires modify these algorithms and they wield them politically. We see that most explicitly with Twitter, but it is also at play on Meta, on Facebook, etcetera. And, you know, I think it — it was really hard watching people and communities that I am aligned with fall for right-wing misinformation.”