Brodigan - February 04, 2021 at 06:59AM
Redstate broke a story on Wednesday questioning whether Congresswoman AOC was near the Capitol on January 6. Rep. AOC has been sharing these harrowing tales about how she thought she was almost murdered that day. She didn't know which of her colleagues sold her out to the insurrectionists. There was something about her wondering if she would die before becoming a mom. It's Rep. AOC. She's silly and overdramatic. And according to Redstate, nowhere near the Capitol when her alleged story unfolded.
The right understandably had a field day with this. #AOClied and #AlexandriaOcasioSmollet are still the #2 national trend right now. Here's the thing. To be charitable, the story is a little he said/she said. None of us were in the room Rep. AOC alleges she was in. It's all about who you want to believe. I know who I do, and I can guess who many of you do. A "fact" checker at Facebook may disagree. But this is less about the story and more about Rep. AOC's reaction. She's calling on her stans to narc out anyone who tweeted the story.
As we speak, right-wing operatives with millions of followers on social media are spreading flat-out lies and misleading information about Alexandria. But with your help, we can force Twitter and Facebook to take action and enforce their own rules.
Scan your social media to find posts with this misleading information, especially those using the trending hashtag. Don't tweet any hashtags yourself, because we don't want to spread them further!
Use the built-in report features to flag them for moderators. Facebook and Twitter both have built in tools for reporting posts and tweets that break the rules.
The letter calls for people to report "threatening" posts and uses the guise of the Capitol riot as an excuse. If these "threatening" tweets stand, it may lead to violence as it totes did before. I'll bet you 100 shares of GameStop that AOC stans consider any tweet that makes fun of her as "threatening." Any snarky meme that makes her look like a chucklehead as "hate speech" or "misinformation." I'm also willing to bet that Rep. AOC knows that her stans would do this when she sends this letter out. Or, since our betters in Palo Alto demand precision of language, someone from her campaign wrote this letter or authorized her consultants to write this letter, on the congresswoman's behalf.
This is a sitting member of Congress calling on supporters to narc out anyone who makes fun of her on social media. The bigger problem is the way the social media companies are all more than happy to do so. Allegedly, eyeroll emoji.
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