AOC prijeti Musku da promovira svog Twitter imitatora

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hinted at taking action against Twitter after the site’s billionaire CEO Elon Musk interacted with a popular satirical account using the politician’s likeness, escalating the long-simmering feud between the newsmakers with outsized social media presences.

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“There’s a fake account on here impersonating me,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday afternoon, referring to the platform’s viral “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody)” račun, which has more than 100,000 followers.

Musk “boost[ed visibility” of the account which is spreading “false” information, Ocasio-Cortez continued, saying she’s “assessing with my team how to move forward.”

U ponedjeljak, Musk odgovorio je “🔥” to a tweet from the Ocasio-Cortez impersonator saying the politician thinks she has a “crush” on the billionaire unless it’s just the “wine talking.”

Though the account is marked parody, the fact that it’s verified and its display name’s length obscures the parody designation on mobile devices make it challenging to identify it as such.

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The First Amendment protects parody as freedom of speech. Ocasio-Cortez and Musk are among the most-followed business political leaders on social media, and given the Congresswoman’s far-left politics and Musk’s frequent association with the fringe right, the pair have formed something of a social media rivalry. The duo have interacted with each other on social media numerous times over the past few years, especially leading up to and following Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last October. Ocasio-Cortez tallied nearly 700,000 likes in November on a cvrkut flaming Musk’s pushing of Twitter’s paid subscription plan, while Musk’s response asking to collect her $8 monthly fee got one million likes. Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prominent users on Bluesky, the Twitter alternative founded by Twitter’s cofounder and long-time CEO, Jack Dorsey.

Presudna ponuda

“She would never date me I’m not cool enough 😢,” Musk rekao in March in response to a question about when his and Ocasio-Cortez’s first date will be. Ocasio-Cortez and her long-time partner Riley Roberts got engaged last April, while Musk is not currently known to be in a relationship.

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Animosity Between AOC And Musk Heats Up Over Billionaire’s Twitter Takeover (Forbes)