{"id":1722205,"date":"2022-11-02T18:18:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722205"},"modified":"2022-11-02T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:18:58","slug":"aoc-complains-about-changes-on-twitter-musk-torches-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-complains-about-changes-on-twitter-musk-torches-her\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Complains About Changes On Twitter; Musk Torches Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-complains-about-changes-on-twitter-musk-torches-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722205&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) complained on Twitter this week about the changes that new Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> is making to the platform, and she received a reply from the world\u2019s richest man.<\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s remarks came after Musk said that he will charge users $8 per month for a variety of features, which has sparked a lot of backlash from across the political spectrum for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that \u2018free speech\u2019 is actually a $8\/mo subscription plan,\u201d AOC tweeted at the start of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded, \u201cYour feedback is appreciated, now pay $8.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk also responded with a screenshot of a hoodie that Ocasio-Cortez sells online that lists for $58.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XuJdfMTTi1\">pic.twitter.com\/XuJdfMTTi1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1587923502354472960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk also responded with a meme:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYOBGBHOUA\">pic.twitter.com\/BYOBGBHOUA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1587913672801759234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez also got into it with David Sacks, a West Coast-based venture capitalist, who responded to AOC by writing, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t [The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic] free? Their billionaire owners should stop being greedy and give us those products for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC criticized the response, writing: \u201cAre you seriously equating an app where people are torrenting racial slurs at an accelerated clip with the New York Times?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso fyi, legacy newspapers actually care about verifying newsworthy sources. And they don\u2019t charge their journalists\/creators for \u2018priority\u2019 placement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for billionaire ownership of our news sources, that is a legitimate problem! Market concentration of media is a huge issue,\u201d AOC continued. \u201cHope you\u2019re using your power to stop private equity gutting of local newsrooms while supporting nonprofit and co-op modeled news outlets as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has previously mocked AOC on Twitter over criticisms from the socialist lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez tweeted back in April, after Musk announced he would buy the platform: \u201cTired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded, \u201cStop hitting on me, I\u2019m really shy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stop hitting on me, I\u2019m really shy \u263a\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1520152887090892800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s response was a reference to a news story from late last year where Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at critics online after she was caught hanging out in Florida without a mask on.<\/p>\n<p>National Review\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-spotted-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-reports-record-covid-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that, according to photographs obtained by the publication, Ocasio-Cortez was \u201cseated outside Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon, raising a cocktail in one hand and checking her phone in another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Republicans are mad they can\u2019t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend\u2019s feet,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez responded to one of the critics calling her out. \u201cYa creepy weirdos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) complained on Twitter this week about the changes that new Twitter CEO Elon Musk is making to the platform, and she received a reply from the world\u2019s richest man. AOC\u2019s remarks came after Musk said that he will charge users $8 per month for a variety of features, which has sparked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1722208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}