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Ocasio-Cortez Suggests She Was Responsible For Twitter Banning Political Ads

Ryan Saavedra
Ocasio-Cortez Suggests She Was Responsible For Twitter Banning Political Ads
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly believes that she was at least somewhat responsible for Twitter’s decision last month to ban political advertisements, saying that it was not a “coincidence” that the social media platform pulled the ads after she attacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

NBC New York reported in a video segment, “The congresswoman says that her recent grilling of Facebook over the accuracy of political ads on their platform had an impact.”

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