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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined the chorus of those criticizing Twitter chief Elon Musk after he suspended several liberal journalists from his social media platform Thursday.
In a pair of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, accused Musk of “abuse of power” and encouraged him to “lay off the proto-fascism” hours after he temporarily barred journalists who worked for CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and others.
Musk claimed the journalists allegedly violated the platform’s new policy not to share real-time location information when they posted “assassination coordinates.”
“Take a beat and lay off the proto-fascism. Maybe try putting down your phone,” she wrote, sharing one of Musk’s tweets.
A split photo of Twitter CEO Elon Musk in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, listens at the US Capitol on December 13, 2022, in Washington, DC.
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ELON MUSK POLLS USERS ON REINSTATING SUSPENDED JOURNALISTS, DEFENDS HIMSELF IN TWITTER SPACES CHAT
Musk spent several hours Thursday evening defending his decision to suspend the journalists, through several tweets and participation in a Twitter Spaces conference call.
“They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service,” Musk wrote Thursday.
“Accounts engaged in doxxing receive a temporary 7 day suspension,” he continued.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.
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And, “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”
The Democratic lawmaker suggested Musk should not have suspended them as he is a “public figure” who, like her, is sometimes the victim of such location or personal information-sharing behavior.
“You’re a public figure. An extremely…
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