{"id":1722576,"date":"2022-11-03T07:34:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722576"},"modified":"2022-11-03T07:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:35:14","slug":"ocasio-cortez-floats-conspiracy-theory-after-elon-musk-mocks-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-floats-conspiracy-theory-after-elon-musk-mocks-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Floats Conspiracy Theory After Elon Musk Mocks 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%2Focasio-cortez-floats-conspiracy-theory-after-elon-musk-mocks-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=1722576&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) appeared to float a conspiracy theory Wednesday night after new Twitter CEO Elon Musk mocked her on the platform, suggesting without evidence that he disabled features on her account.<\/p>\n<p>The drama started after AOC complained on Twitter this week about the changes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> is making to the platform, which garnered a response from Musk.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Musk, AOC promoted the union workers that run her campaign store and took veiled shots at Musk\u2019s businesses.<\/p>\n<p>AOC then appeared to float a conspiracy theory by connecting the timing of Musk mocking her to what she claimed without evidence were features on her account that were not working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso my Twitter mentions\/notifications conveniently aren\u2019t working tonight, so I was informed via text that I seem to have gotten under a certain billionaire\u2019s skin,\u201d she claimed. \u201cJust a reminder that money will never buy your way out of insecurity, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne guy\u2019s business plan for a $44 billion over-leveraged purchase is apparently to run around and individually ask people for $8,\u201d she continued. \u201cRemember that next time you question yourself or your qualifications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s initial complaint earlier this week came after Musk said that he would 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 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>\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 Ocasio-Cortez tweeted back in April after Musk announced he would buy the platform.<\/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. 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