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At the time, Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg why right-wing news outlets with ties to white supremacists, such as The Daily Caller, were labeled as official fact-checkers on the platform, and questioned his private dinner parties with the likes of Tucker Carlson, the Fox News pundit who has called white supremacy a “hoax.”. Ocasio-Cortez referred to her 2019 grilling of Mark Zuckerberg during a congressional hearing. Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg has, this week, admitted that Facebook's moderation of disinformation is.
https://images.c-span.org/Files/569/20191023152207003_hd.jpgRepresentative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questions Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about how the company enforces its political advertising policies and raises some hypothetical examples of the kinds of ads Facebook might block. 'Would I be able to run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?' She asks. 'I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head,' Zuckerberg replies. 'I think probably.'Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questions Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about how the company enforces its political… read more
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questions Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about how the company enforces its political advertising policies and raises some hypothetical examples of the kinds of ads Facebook might block. 'Would I be able to run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?' She asks. 'I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head,' Zuckerberg replies. 'I think probably.' close
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Saturday reiterated past criticism of Facebook, despite paying the social-media giant hundreds of thousands of dollars for her reelection campaign.
After winning a long shot 2018 primary, Ocasio-Cortez has been hailed in the press for her social-media savvy. On Saturday, she lamented the outsized role tech companies play in politics.
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'I don't know about you, but I don't want Mark Zuckerberg making decisions over my life,' Ocasio-Cortez said.
Ocasio-Cortez was speaking at a rally in Queens, New York, to publicly endorse Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).
'We need to build a mass movement in America centered on the working class, the poor, the middle class, one that is actively anti-racist, that is rooted in principles of universality,' Ocasio-Cortez said. 'The future and our future is in a public system and it's publicly owned systems because we need to take power over our lives again.'
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The Ocasio-Cortez campaign continues to be a major player in social media, according to its third quarter FEC filing. She spent at least $425,000 on advertising between June 28 and Sept. 23.
This isn't the first time Ocasio-Cortez's campaign has poured massive amounts of cash into increasing her Facebook visibility. During the second quarter, she spent more than $250,000 on Facebook advertising. This spending occurred simultaneously with Ocasio-Cortez telling a Yahoo News podcast in April she was quitting her own personal use of Facebook and scaling back social-media use in general, saying it's a 'public health risk' because it can lead to 'increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.' She also said in March that society 'has a Facebook problem.'
The Washington Free Beaconreported in mid-August that Ocasio-Cortez was just shy of spending $480,000 with Facebook over the preceding 90 days.
Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez said that Facebook's 'reckless behavior represents a threat to our privacy & American democracy.'
Zuckerberg himself said:
'If someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat+fight.'
Well, Facebook’s reckless behavior represents a threat to our privacy & American democracy.
Some things are worth fighting for. So let’s go to the mat & fight. https://t.co/YsZzJpDBtk
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 1, 2019
Last November, she also took to Twitter to slam Facebook, saying it had 'clearly lost control of their product' for allowing conspiracy theories and fake quotes to stay on the website.
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That the right is mobilizing fake quotes, conspiracies + outright hatred, particularly on Congresswomen of color, shows how vapid they are on actual issues.
The racism allowed towards Ilhan + others is completely unacceptable. @Facebook has clearly lost control of their product. https://t.co/vqRaM3iAjX
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 19, 2018
Earlier in the week, Zuckerberg defended the tech company during a speech at Georgetown University. The social-media giant, he said, is committed to 'giving people a voice.'
'[A]s long as enough of us keep fighting for this, I believe that more people’s voices will eventually help us work through these issues together and write a new chapter in our history—where from all of our individual voices and perspectives, we can bring the world closer together,' Zuckerberg said.